Schnittke and Wagner

Here you will experience the grandeur in excerpts from The Ring by Richard Wagner, then in instrumental arrangements that KORK will lift to the ceiling in Store Studio. The Faust overture, on the other hand, is a purely orchestral work, perhaps intended as part of a symphony.

Petr Popelka, conductor

Yi Yang and Sergey Levitin, violin

Richard Wagner: Eine Faust-overture

Alfred Schnittke: Concerto grosso No. 1 for two violins, harpsichord, prepared piano and chamber orchestra

Richard Wagner/arr: Engelbert Humperdinck: Siegfried's Rheinfahrt from Götterdämmerung

Richard Wagner/arr: L. Stasny: Siegfried's Tod und Trauermarsch from Götterdämmerung

Richard Wagner: Wotan's Abschied und Feuerzauber from Die Walküre