BBC Proms 2019 Prom 68 Wagner Night (320 kbps .mp3)



Live at BBC Proms: Marc Albrecht conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with soloists Christine Goerke and Stephen Gould, in music by Wagner, Franck and Weber.



01. Carl Maria von Weber - Der Freischütz, Overture

01a. General introduction to BBC Proms 2019 Prom 68 Wagner Night

02. Wagner -  Siegfried  - Forest Murmurs

02a. Introduction to Wagner’s  Siegfried - Forest Murmurs

03. César Franck - Le chasseur maudit

03a. Introduction to Franck’s Le chasseur maudit

04. Wagner - Götterdämmerung excerpts – Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey; Duet 'Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde'; Siegfried's Death and Funeral March; Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene

04a. Introduction to the second part of BBC Proms 2019 Prom 68 Wagner Night



Christine Goerke (soprano)

Stephen Gould (tenor)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Marc Albrecht (conductor)



Composer-themed evenings were a distinctive and popular feature of Henry Wood’s early Proms seasons: if it was Monday, it was Wagner Night.



We revive this tradition with a concert whose first half explores the enchanted forest (both beguiling and darkly supernatural) – a key symbol of the German Romantic movement.



The second half presents pivotal scenes from Götterdämmerung, the climax of Wagner’s four-opera magnum opus The Ring of the Nibelung – including Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music and the vocal tour de force of Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene.



05. BBC Proms 2019 Prom 68 Proms Plus Interval

In the third of our series on Henry Wood, Hannah French explores the Proms founder-conductor’s relationship with Wagner’s music.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Broadcast: 9 September 2019