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The Flying Dutchman (Overture)

Composer: Richard Wagner
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
Recording date: 04 February 2005
Date of broadcast: 20 September 2006

Wagner's opera about the terrifying ghost ship, written in 1840, aged only 30, is a threatening, storm-tossed tragedy. You can taste the salt. It made him exclaim "from here begins my career as poet!"

Composer: Richard Wagner
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier
Recording date: 04 February 2005
Date of broadcast: 20 September 2006

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