View all recordings of works by this composer
Albumblatt 'In das Album der Furstin M.', WWV94 (8)Albumblatt (arr. A Wilhelmj for violin and piano) (4)
Albumblatt (fur Cosima Wagner) (2)
Albumblatt fur Ernst Benedikt Kietz, WWV64 'Lied ohne Worte' (2)
Albumblatt fur Frau Betty Schott, WWV108 (4)
An Webers Grabe, WWV72 (1)
Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwanen, WWV95 (4)
Attente (2)
Beim Antritt des neuen Jahres 1835, WWV36 (2)
» Overture
Christoph Columbus: Overture (4)Concert Overture no.1 in D minor, WWV20 (1)
Concert Overture no.2 in C major, WWV27 (1)
Das Liebesmahl der Apostel, op.69 (arr. player organ) (1)
Das Liebesmahl der Apostel, op.69 (excerpt) (1)
Das Liebesmahl der Apostel, op.69 (4)
Das Liebesverbot (14)
» Overture
Das Rheingold (highlights) (1)Das Rheingold (68)
» Scene 2
» Scene 4
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (An Orchestral Adventure arr. by Henk de Vlieger) (1)Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (Symphonic version by Andreas Tarkmann) (1)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (The 'Ring' without words) (3)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (complete) (31)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (excerpts) (1)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (highlights) (4)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) (highlights, arr. Joseph Swensen) (1)
Der Tag erscheint, WWV68B (1)
Der Tannenbaum, WWV50 (4)
Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) (orchestral excerpts) (1)
Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): excerpts (arr. Franz Xaver Franz) (1)
Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): excerpts (2)
Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): highlights (2)
Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) (128)
» Overture
Descendons gaiement la courtille, WWV65 (1)Die Feen (excerpts) (1)
Die Feen (15)
» Overture
Die Liebesverbot (1)Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (excerpts) (2)
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (highlights) (7)
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: An Orchestral Tribute (arr. H de Vlieger) (1)
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Suite (1)
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (168)
» Act 1
» Act 3
» Overture
» Prelude
» Suite
Die Rose (1)Die Walkure (highlights) (3)
Die Walkure (194)
» Act 1
» Act 2
» Act 3
» Wintersturme wichen dem Wonnemond (Siegmund's Love-Song) (arr. Karg-Elert for harmonium and piano)
Dors, mon enfant, WWV53 (arr. Simone Fontanelli) (1)Dors, mon enfant, WWV53 (4)
Eine Sonate fur das Album von Frau Mathilde Wesendonck, WWV85 (4)
Elegie in A flat major (11)
Entreactes tragiques (2) (arr. H de Vlieger) (1)
Fantasia in F sharp minor, op.3 WWV22 (4)
Faust Lieder (7) for voice and piano, op.5 WWV15 (5)
Faust Overture (25)
Gotterdammerung (highlights) (5)
Gotterdammerung (141)
» Dawn
» Finale
» Overture
» Prelude
Gretchen am Spinnrade (1)Grober Festmarsch (Centennial March) for the centenary of the independence of the USA (1)
Gruss seiner Treuen an Friedrich August den Geliebten (2)
Huldigungsmarsch (arr. player organ) (1)
Huldigungsmarsch (2)
Iphigenie en Aulide: Overture (1)
Kaisermarsch (3)
Kinderkatechismus, WWV106 (1)
Konig Enzio (1)
» Overture
L'Attente, WWV55 (1)Les Adieux de Marie Stuart, WWV61 (arr. Simone Fontanelli) (1)
Les Adieux de Marie Stuart, WWV61 (2)
Les Deux Grenadiers, WWV60 (5)
Lohengrin (highlights) (7)
Lohengrin (181)
» Prelude
Melodram der Tannenbaum (1)Mignonne, WWV57 (arr. Simone Fontanelli) (1)
Mignonne, WWV57 (4)
Nicolay, WWV44 (1)
Notenbrief fur Mathilde Wesendonck (2)
Parsifal (excerpts) (2)
Parsifal (highlights) (2)
Parsifal (orchestral excerpts) (1)
Parsifal: An Orchestral Quest (arr. Henk de Vlieger) (1)
Parsifal: Symphonic Synthesis from Act III (arr. L Stokowski) (1)
Parsifal Suite (arr. Andrew Gourlay) (1)
Parsifal (126)
» Act 2
» Act 3
» Prelude
Piano Sonata in A major, op.4 'Grosse Sonate' (1)Piano Sonata in B flat major, op.1 (1)
Polka in G major, WWV84 (1)
Polonaise for piano four hands in D major, op.2 WWV23b (arr. brass ensemble) (1)
Polonaise for piano four hands in D major, op.2 WWV23b (1)
Polonaise in D major, WWV23a (1)
Polonia, WWV39 (2)
Porazzi theme (ed. Kent Hugo Moussault) (1)
Rienzi (highlights) (1)
Rienzi (orchestral excerpts) (1)
Rienzi (68)
» Overture
» Prelude
Romance in A major (after the Albumblatt 'In das Album der Furstin M.', WWV94) (1)Romance in A major (arr. David Popper) (1)
Rule Britannia (1)
Schluss zum Vorspiel from Tristan und Isolde (1)
Siegfried (highlights) (4)
Siegfried (orchestral excerpts) (1)
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103 (arr. Alfred Pringsheim for piano and string quintet) (1)
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103 (arr. Josef Rubinstein) (1)
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103 (arr. Kenneth Woods) (1)
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103 (trans. Edwin Lemare for organ) (1)
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103 (trans. for piano by Glenn Gould) (1)
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103 (version for 13 instruments) (2)
Siegfried Idyll, WWV103 (62)
Siegfried (77)
» Act 3
» Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! Schmiede mein Hammer ...Schau, Mime, du Schmied: So schneidet Siegfrieds Schwert
Sonata for Mathilde Wesendonk's Album (3)Studies (2) on Tristan and Isolde (1)
Symphony in C major (3)
Symphony in E major (3)
Tannhauser (highlights) (4)
Tannhauser (197)
» Act 2
» Overture
The Ring (arr. Timothy Higgins for brass) (1)The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure (arr. Henk de Vileger) (1)
Tout n'est qu'images fugitives, WWV58 (3)
Traume for violin and orchestra, WWV91b (arr. Arthur Seybold) (1)
Traume for violin and orchestra, WWV91b (2)
Tristan und Isolde (excerpts) (2)
Tristan und Isolde (highlights) (8)
Tristan und Isolde: An Orchestral Passion (arr. H de Vlieger) (2)
Tristan und Isolde: Paraphrase for string septet (arr. Martina Trumpp) (1)
Tristan und Isolde: Symphonic Synthesis (arr. L Stokowski) (1)
Tristan und Isolde (196)
» Act 1
» Act 2
» Act 3
» O Konig
» Prelude
Venezia (1)Wesendonck-Lieder (5) (arr. Andreas Horicht for string quartet) (1)
Wesendonck-Lieder (5) (arr. August Stradal for piano) (2)
Wesendonck-Lieder (5) (arr. Gerhard Heydt) (1)
Wesendonck-Lieder (5) (arr. Hans Werner Henze) (2)
Wesendonck-Lieder (5) (arr. Othman Louati) (1)
Wesendonck-Lieder (5) (arr. Simone Fontanelli) (1)
Wesendonck-Lieder (5) (arr. cello and piano) (2)
Wesendonck-Lieder (5) (orch. Felix Mottl) (16)
Wesendonck-Lieder (5), WWV91 (61)
Zuricher Vielliebchen-Walzer, WWV88 (3)
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and which was announced in a series of essays between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.
* This text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
License
* Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
* Original page
Recent Wagner releases
Songs from Faust
£10.93
(Champs Hill Records)
Roberto Alagna: 60
£14.20
(Aparte)
Wolfgang Sawallisch: The Warner Classics Edition - Complete Opera Recordings
£80.70
(Warner)
Christoph von Dohnanyi: The Cleveland Years
£136.76
(Decca)
Wagner - Ring Odyssey (arr. Swensen)
£23.70
(Alpha)
Wagner - An Introduction to ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’
£18.95
(Australian Eloquence)
Wagner - Preludes and Overtures
£13.25
(Vox Classics)
Summer Night Concert 2024
£12.30
(Sony)
Wagner - Siegfried
£24.19
(Haenssler Profil)
Wagner - Parsifal
£27.32
(Deutsche Grammophon)
The Wagner Project
£14.20
(C-AVI)
Samaroff & La Forge: Complete Solo Recordings
£13.25
(APR)
Wolfgang Sawallisch: The Warner Classics Edition - Complete Symphonic, Lieder & Choral Recordings
£170.95
(Warner)
Wolfgang Sawallisch: Complete Recordings on Philips & DG
£179.51
(Decca)
Neville Marriner: The Complete Warner Classics Recordings
£227.95
(Warner)
William Steinberg: Complete Command Classics Recordings
£49.55
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Love Music
£14.20
(Naive)
Wagner - Famous Opera Scenes arr. for Piano
£17.05
(Harmonia Mundi)
Michael Spyres: In the Shadows
£13.25
(Erato)
New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists: The Decca Recordings
£75.96
(Australian Eloquence)
Wagner - Parsifal
£44.60
(Sony)
Wagner - Die Walkure
£16.92
(Sterling)
Four Hands at Home: Domestic Music-Making in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
£13.25
(Toccata Next)
Richard: Strauss & Wagner
£15.15
(Prospero Classical)
Gary Bertini: The SWR Recordings
£30.65
(SWR Classic)
Mahler - Symphony no.3; Wagner - Gotterdammerung (orchestral extracts)
£13.25
(Urania)
475 Years of Staatskapelle Dresden
£88.79
(Haenssler Profil)
Popper - Complete Transcriptions for Cello and Piano
£26.55
(Paladino)
Eugene Ormandy & the Philadelphia Orchestra: The Columbia Stereo Collection
£189.95
(Sony)
The Art of Oskar Fried
£77.85
(Scribendum)
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Paraphrase for String Septet)
£15.15
(Coviello Classics)
Bruckner - Symphonies 0-9; Wagner - Orchestral Music
£46.99
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Otto Klemperer: The Warner Classics Edition Vol.2 - Operas & Sacred Works
£109.20
(Warner)
Maria Callas: La Divina
£15.15
(Warner)
Victoria de los Angeles: The Warner Classics Edition
£170.95
(Warner)
Wanderer without Words: Schubert, Wagner, Mahler
£14.49
(Alpha)
Lux - Organ Works Vol.2
£13.25
(Toccata Classics)
Wagner - Siegfried
£29.60
(BR Klassik)
The Art of Yakov Flier
£89.25
(Scribendum)
Leonard Bernstein: Maestro on Record
£104.45
(Sony)
Decca Conductors’ Gallery
£98.76
(Australian Eloquence)
Weiss und Blau: Works for Male Choir from Bavaria
£15.15
(Ars Produktion)
Solitaire: Music for Violin & Piano
£11.88
(Odradek Records)
Liebestod: Brahms, Dietrich, Schumann, Wagner - Works for Violin & Piano
£12.30
(Naxos)
Much Ado: Romantic Violin Masterpieces
£13.25
(Avie)
Klemperer conducts Wagner (Vinyl LP)
£66.45
(Warner)
Queen Elisabeth Competition: Voice 2023 (Live)
£24.65
(Queen Elisabeth Competition)
Jonas Frolund: Solo Alone and More
£13.25
(OUR Recordings)
Wagner - Parsifal
£33.88
(Haenssler Profil)
Wagner - Gotterdammerung (Vinyl LP)
£123.45
(Decca)
Wagner - Gotterdammerung (Deluxe Hybrid SACD)
£85.45
(Decca)
Knappertsbusch conducts Wagner: Orchestral & Vocal Excerpts
£13.25
(Urania)
Deified: Music for Brass
£19.72
(Pentatone)
My Story: Wagner, Paderewski, Bach, Elgar, Messiaen
£18.95
(CD Accord)
Otto Klemperer: The Warner Classics Edition Vol.1 - Symphonic Works & Concertos
£218.45
(Warner)
Jean-Marc Luisada: Au cinema ce soir
£16.63
(La Dolce Volta)
Anna Bonitatibus: Monologues
£28.45
(Prospero Classical)
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde: An Orchestral Passion
£11.88
(Oehms)
Joseph Calleja: Ave Maria
£13.25
(Decca)
Liebestod: Wagner, Mahler, Strauss
£21.80
(Accentus)
Wagner - Siegfried (Vinyl LP)
£123.45
(Decca)
Wagner - Siegfried (Deluxe Hybrid SACD)
£85.45
(Decca)
Jessye Norman: The Unreleased Masters
£21.34
(Decca)
Camille Thomas: Voice of Hope (Vinyl LP)
£33.20
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Neeme Jarvi in Concert: Mozart, Wagner, Brahms & Reger
£11.59
(Chandos)
Heimat - 500 Years of Heimatlieder
£28.45
(Prospero Classical)
Eduard van Beinum: Complete Recordings on Decca & Philips
£108.55
(Decca)
Eternelle Dualite: Songs of Love & War
£13.25
(Etcetera)
Wagner - Das Rheingold (Deluxe Hybrid SACD)
£71.20
(Decca)
Wagner - Die Walkure (Vinyl LP)
£123.45
(Decca)
Wagner - Die Walkure (Deluxe Hybrid SACD)
£85.45
(Decca)
Wagner arr. Gourlay - Parsifal Suite
£13.25
(Orchid Classics)
Wagner - Das Rheingold (Vinyl LP)
£74.05
(Decca)
The Alexandra Palace Organ: Complete HMV Recordings
£18.95
(Willowhayne Records)
Roger Norrington: The Complete Erato Recordings
£113.95
(Erato)
Wagner by Arrangement Vol.3: Operatic Highlights arr. for Chamber Orchestra
£13.25
(Toccata Classics)