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A part of Concert from first Japan tour of the Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra with Herbert von Karajan in November, 1957.
This clip is live performance of Wagner's Prelude to Act 1 from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, at the Old NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan in November 3rd, 1957.
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The overture and part of Act 1 of Richard Wagner's comic opera 'The Mastersingers of Nuremberg' ('Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg') in a filmed performance from Bayreuth in 2000.
The chorus and orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival is conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
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Hans Sachs: Bernd Weikl
Veit Pogner: Manfred Schenk
Fritz Kothner: Jef Vermeersch
Beckmesser: Herman Prey
Walther: Siegfried Jerusalem
Orchester und Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele. Horst Stein conductor. Wolfgang Wagner
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Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Vorspiel zum I. Aufzug / Prelude to Act I / Prélude du Ier acte / Preludio dellatto I
Staatskapelle Dresden
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Aufgenommen: 24 Januar 1998 Tokio, Suntory Hall
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Furtwangler conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in wartime. From wartime propaganda newsreel "Wochenschau". Speaker says it is during a work interval of a Berlin tank and tractor factory. Interesting (and completely unintended) mix of sublime music and battered proletarian workers faces....just another proof of the completely blind ideological exhaltation of the period. Nice playing anyway.
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