Munich Philharmonic
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Lorin Maazel
conductor
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Overture and “Venusberg Music” from “Tannhäuser”
Prelude and Liebestod from “Tristan und Isolde”
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 3 in D minor, WAB 103
Anton Bruckner was a devout man and organized his daily schedule in strict accordance with religious rituals and prayers. Yet he also believed in Richard Wagner, the “master of all masters,” as he used to call him. Bruckner is often said to have transferred what Wagner achieved in music drama to the realm of the symphony. Of course the question arises as to whether the relationship between these two composers is truly of such significance. Lorin Maazel, who begins his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Munich Philharmonic in September 2012, will seek to provide revealing insights by juxtaposing Bruckner’s Third Symphony, which is dedicated to Wagner, with two orchestral excerpts from the latter’s operas. The sultry eroticism of the Venusberg bacchanal from “Tannhäuser” and the Prelude to “Tristan und Isolde” is hardly to be heard in Bruckner, whose own music tends to be more rough hewn, with its blocks of orchestral sound. Bruckner was, after all, no mere imitator.
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