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CD83703 Wagner composer of the week BBC R3 (parts 3, 4 and 5)

CD83703 Wagner composer of the week BBC R3 (parts 3, 4 and 5)
CD83703 Wagner composer of the week BBC R3 (parts 3, 4 and 5)
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CD83703 Wagner composer of the week BBC R3 (parts 3, 4 and 5)

Here is the rest of this week's composer of the week programmes on Wagner as broadcast on BBC Radio 3. (sorry for the mislabeled files, Wed and Thurs should be vice versa)

3. Donald Macleod explores Richard Wagner's exile in Switzerland, including a period of intense creativity that coincided with the entrance into his life of his second wife, Cosima. Their rented home was an undistinguished, three story villa near Lucerne, with splendid views of the distant mountains, and Wagner was incredibly happy here, accompanied by his young family, a pair of peacocks and two dogs called Wotan and Fricka.

4. Wagner's talent for escaping trouble hits new heights thanks to a new King of Bavaria, whose sanity was questionable. The composer, a left-wing revolutionary who had fought on the streets in Dresden, now brought about a revolution in music with the help of a ridiculously spoiled and pampered monarch. King Ludwig happened to be Wagner's number one fan and gave the ever-ambitious composer seemingly limitless financial backing. With Donald Macleod.

5. Donald Macleod discovers why Richard Wagner took a twelve year break from his work on the Ring Cycle. As the music fizzes back into life, Donald continues his journey through the epic music dramas, from the thunderous music of Siegfried to the monumental funeral music from Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods). Plus a look at Wagner's controversial legacy and his final work, Parsifal, described by one writer as "opera halfway between Mass and orgy".



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