Works concerning Richard Wagner
- Description
- Everything related to Richard Wagner except orchestral scores.
- Based on tag
- Wagner
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by Deryck Cooke
92 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 4
Added 2014-10-14, 02:18 AM
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- Waldstein
- Explanations
- Waldstein: Would have been the definitive study of the Ring. Sadly unfinished. Unsurpassed on Wagner's sources and his transformation of them. Superbly written. The first chapter also goes into considerable detail about the music. Should be read together with Deryck's introduction on DECCA (2 CDs). Demolishes similar analyses by Shaw, Donington and Newman.
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by Bryan Magee
247 members
1 review
4.1
Score 2.83
Added 2014-10-14, 02:15 AM
4
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- Waldstein
- Explanations
- Waldstein: Probably the best overview of Wagner's life and works in just 280 pages. Mr Millington's slight obsession with Wagner's anti-Semitism does detract from his admirably concise and insightful account, but that's a small price to pay. Exposes mercilessly the factual errors and inaccuracies, many of them no doubt deliberate, in Wagner's autobiography.
5
268 members
4 reviews
3.9
Score 2.56
Added 2014-10-14, 02:15 AM
6
75 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 2.46
Added 2014-10-14, 02:22 AM
7
159 members
½ 4.4
Score 2.38
Added 2014-10-14, 02:23 AM
8
566 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 2.31
Added 2014-10-14, 02:15 AM
- Member
- Waldstein
- Explanations
- Waldstein: Andrew Porter's justly famous singing translation of the Ring. Beautifully lucid and hugely readable. Cf. Stewart Spencer's literal translation in the Ring Companion. Porter's translation is reprinted in the four ENO volumes dedicated to the Ring; his introduction appears in the one about Die Walküre.
9
38 members
3.8
Score 2.25
Added 2014-10-14, 02:35 AM
10
66 members
2 reviews
3.8
Score 2.2
Added 2014-10-14, 02:31 AM
12
45 members
1 review
3
Score 2.11
Added 2014-10-14, 02:38 AM
13
25 members
4
Score 2.07
Added 2014-10-14, 02:39 AM
15
39 members
3.1
Score 2
Added 2014-10-14, 02:35 AM
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by M. Owen Lee
158 members
2 reviews
4.1
Score 1.85
Added 2014-10-14, 02:15 AM
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25
96 members
2 reviews
4.2
Score 1.77
Added 2014-10-14, 02:50 AM
26
700 members
7 reviews
4
Score 1.76
Added 2014-10-14, 04:11 AM
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by Bryan Magee
209 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
Score -2
Added 2014-10-14, 02:46 AM
- Explanations
- Waldstein : I have no doubt this is an excellent book, but in regard to Schopenhauer's immense influence on Wagner Bryan Magee has done better elsewhere.
29
145 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Score -2
Added 2014-10-14, 02:23 AM
- Explanations
- Waldstein : Haven't read this one but have no intention of doing so either. Deryck Cooke has argued brilliantly that Donington's Jungian interpretations are, at best, ridiculous misrepresentations of Wagner's intentions. See I Saw the World End, chapter 1.
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by Franz Werfel
110 members
1 review
½ 3.3
Score -2
Added 2014-10-14, 02:53 AM
- Explanations
- Waldstein : Exceptionally tedious account of Verdi's late years, including his decision finally to visit Wagner in Venice - too late, as it turned out.
31
53 members
1 review
3
Score -2
Added 2014-10-14, 02:25 AM
- Explanations
- Waldstein : Hatchet job par excellence. Worthless.
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33 members
3
Score -2
Added 2014-10-14, 02:38 AM
- Explanations
- Waldstein : Dry. Superficial. Redundant. Much better get Mr Millington's bio Wagner (1984, rev. 1992) or the companion edited by him.
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- Explanations
- Waldstein : Mildly amusing, mostly boring.
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by Alex Ross
318 members
7 reviews
4.2
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
39
140 members
1 review
½ 4.7
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
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41
1,013 members
3.9
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
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43
100 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
44
55 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
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by J.K. Holman
68 members
½ 4.5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
46
27 members
2 reviews
4
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
47
85 members
1 review
½ 4.7
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
48
58 members
3 reviews
3.8
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
49
199 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
50
169 members
3.8
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
51
134 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
52
106 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
53
68 members
½ 3.7
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
54
166 members
9 reviews
3.8
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
56
122 members
1 review
½ 2.6
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
57
108 members
5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
59
849 members
2 reviews
3.8
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
60
111 members
4.1
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
62
116 members
½ 3.5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
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47 members
2 reviews
5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
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by Nike Wagner
37 members
2 reviews
2.8
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
68
311 members
3 reviews
4.2
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
69
106 members
4.1
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
70
by Roy Thomas
88 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
71
84 members
½ 4.5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
72
62 members
1 review
3.8
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
73
51 members
1 review
3.9
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
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by Thomas May
40 members
5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
76
26 members
1 review
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
78
109 members
4
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
80
89 members
4.8
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
81
80 members
½ 4.3
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
82
70 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
83
70 members
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
84
66 members
1 review
4
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
85
62 members
5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
87
46 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
88
38 members
2 reviews
4.2
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
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90
by Hans Mayer
38 members
4
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
91
36 members
1 review
4.8
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
95
22 members
4
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
97
13 members
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
98
7 members
1 review
5
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
99
109 members
2 reviews
3
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM
100
94 members
½ 4.3
Score -1000
Added 1969-12-31, 07:00 PM