Album guide
Wagner e Venezia (Live)
- Composer
- Wagner
- Released
- 1997
- Label
- Winter & Winter
- Forces
- Piano, Accordion, Strings
- Personnel
- Uri Caine, Ted Reichman, Mark Feldman, Joyce Hammann, Erik Friedlander, Drew Gress
Caine reduces Wagner’s huge operatic scores to an acoustic sextet of piano, accordion, strings and bass, closer to a café band than an orchestra.
The group recorded the album over four evenings in Venice in June 1997, and Winter & Winter treated the voices and noises around the musicians as part of the record rather than studio clutter.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Tristan Und Isolde: LiebestodTristan Und Isolde: Liebestod
- Tannhäuser: OuvertüreTannhäuser: Ouvertüre
- Lohengrin, 3. Akt: OuvertüreLohengrin, 3. Akt: Ouvertüre
- Tristan Und Isolde: PreludeTristan Und Isolde: Prelude
- Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg: OuvertüreDie Meistersinger Von Nürnberg: Ouvertüre
- Der Ritt Der WalkürenDer Ritt Der Walküren
- Lohengrin, 1. Akt: OuvertüreLohengrin, 1. Akt: Ouvertüre