Richard Wagner - Transformation Music. {From Parsifal, WWV 111.} w/ Piano reduction score.
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- A short score of the legendary transformation music (Verwandlungsmusik) from Act 1 of the sacred drama Parsifal (WWV 111) by Richard Wagner.
Performer(s): Horst Stein - recording: • Richard Wagner: Parsifal
Announcement: I recently began this complete drama - as well as Tristan und Isolde, and will most likely do all of them with a complete short score for easy study of Wagner's massive orchestration, revolutionary harmonies and rapidly changing tonalcentres
“I recognise now that the characteristic fabric of my music (always of course in the closest association with the poetic design), which my friends regard as so new and significant, owes its construction above all to the extreme sensitivity which guides me in the direction of mediating and providing an intimate bond between all the different moments of transition that separate the extremes of mood. I should now like to call my most delicate and profound art the art of transition, for the whole fabric of my art is made up of such transitions: all that is abrupt and sudden is now repugnant to me; it is often unavoidable and necessary, but even then it may not occur unless the mood has been clearly prepared in advance, so that the suddenness of the transition appears to come as a matter of course.”
[Letter to Mathilde Wesendonk, 29 October 1859, Wesendonk-Briefe 232-6, tr. Spencer and Millington]
This is THE music of transformation. How Wagner could have received such a true musical representation of holy transformation is unfathomable to me. It is a miracle of musical and philosophical revelation! Thank you for sharing this piece with its piano reduction.
god, bless you!!! very helpful.
Hans Sotin is a golden voiced bass who sings Wagner bel canto(which is what Wagner demanded from singers) just like Karl Ridderbusch. His Wotan is also amazing.
I don't understand why every men's chorus insists on entering forte and bombastically on "Zum letzten Liebesmahle." Wagner does not always equate loud and in fact, Parsifal is probably his most nuanced opera. Why not follow the gradual crescendo of the orchestra? Such poor taste.
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