[7/1/2011] Preview: The "American" Bruno Walter brings his humanity to Wagner (continued)

You already know what we're going to hear now, so I don't see any reason to fool around.

We've heard the Parsifal Prelude and "Good Friday Spell" before, notably by Eugen Jochum and the Bavarian Radio Symphony, a beautiful 1957 DG studio recording, in the March 2010 Sunday Classics post "Good Wagner conductors find what inside the music makes it move." Here's Bruno Walter with the Los Angeles orchestra Columbia Masterworks assembled for him in those remarkably productive final years.

WAGNER: Parsifal: Prelude to Act I and Good Friday Spell


Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter, cond. Columbia/CBS/Sony, recorded Feb. 25, 1959


IN TOMORROW'S SUNDAY CLASSICS POST

Walter rehearses and conducts the Siegfried Idyll, with some Siegfried Idyll bonuses.


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