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Exile

Donald Macleod explores Wagner's exile in Switzerland, including a period of intense creativity.

Donald Macleod explores Richard Wagner's exile in Switzerland, including a period of intense creativity that coincided with the entrance into his life of his second wife, Cosima. Their rented home was an undistinguished, three story villa near Lucerne, with splendid views of the distant mountains, and Wagner was incredibly happy here, accompanied by his young family, a pair of peacocks and two dogs called Wotan and Fricka.

1 hour

Last on

Wed 6 Oct 2010 22:00

Music Played

  • Richard Wagner - Lohengrin: Prelude to Acts I & III

    Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

  • Richard Wagner - Lohengrin: Prelude to Acts I & III

    Performer: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

  • Richard Wagner - Huldigungsmarsch

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski (conductor)

  • Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Excerpt from Act III

    Performer: Walther: Sandor Konya (tenor), Sachs: Thomas Stewart (bass-baritone), Pogner: Franz Crass (bass-baritone), Eva: Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir and Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

  • Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll

    Performer: Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)

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  • Wed 6 Oct 2010 12:00
  • Wed 6 Oct 2010 22:00

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