Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra is a seasonal German orchestra based at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus for the annual summer festival Bayreuth Festival. It is reconstituted each season in order to perform Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and other of his stage works, as envisaged by the composer and festival founder. The festival occurs annually, although in some years it was cancelled because of war or other reasons. Although otherwise entirely devoted to the works of Wagner, the inaugural festival in 1876 was opened with a performance of Beethoven's Choral Symphony, and this practice has often been followed subsequently. It has become something of a tradition since Wilhelm Furtwängler reintroduced it in the 1930s. The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra does not have a permanent membership but each year the festival organisers recruit leading musicians from other German orchestras, depending on their availability. Some musicians always arrange their schedules so as to be available for the orchestra; others participate less frequently.
Genre: classical, opera, orchestra
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Top Tracks
- Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 / Act I: "Frisch weht der Wind der Heimat zu"
- Der fliegende Holländer / Act 3: 7. Szene und Chor. "Steuermann, laß die Wacht!"
- Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 / Act I: "Tristan! - Isolde! Treuloser Holder!"
- Tannhäuser (Dresden Version), Act I: Overture and Venusberg Music "Bacchanale" (From Paris Version) - Live at the Bayreuth Festival, 1962
- Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 / Act I: "Herr Tristan trete nah!" - "Begehrt, Herrin, was Ihr wünscht"
- Lohengrin / Act 3: "Treulich geführt ziehet dahin"
- Parsifal: Vorspiel - Act 1 - Remastered 2023, Bayreuth 1962
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": IV. Finale. Presto - Allegro assai
- Die Walkure: Act III Scene 1: Walkurenritt: Hojotoho! Heiaha! (Gerhilde, Helmwige, Waltraute, Schwertleite, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Rossweisse)
- Die Walkure: Act I Scene 1: Prelude
- Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act I: Prelude (Live)
- Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods): Prologue: Einleitung
- Die Walkure: Act II Scene 1: Prelude
- Die Walkure: Act I Scene 3: Siegmund, den Walsung, siehst du, Weib! (Siegmund, Sieglinde)
- Die Walkure: Act I Scene 1: Kuhlende Labung gab mir der Quell (Siegmund, Sieglinde)
- Die Walkure: Act I Scene 1: Wes Herd dies auch sei, hier muss ich rasten (Siegmund, Sieglinde)
- Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods): Prologue: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Siegfried's Rhine Journey)
- Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods): Prologue: Oh, heilige Gotter! (Brunnhilde, Siegfried)
- Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods): Prologue: Einleitung
- Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act I: Durch Gottes Sieg ist jetzt dein Leben mein (Live)
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