Orchestral highlights from Wagner's ‘Twilight of the Gods’

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Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe. This week Classical Live explores opera without words and today Elizabeth features an exclusive recording with Daniele Gatti conducting orchestral highlights from the final part of Wagner's epic music drama, The Ring of the Nibelungs. We also have concert recordings from Portico of Ards in County Down and in the wake of his sad death in February, an archive performance of the Hungarian pianist and conductor Tamás Vásáry playing operatic transcriptions by Liszt. Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 Santa Cecilia Orchestra Daniele Gatti (conductor) Franz Liszt Paraphrase on the quartet from Verdi's 'Rigoletto' Tamas Vasary (piano) Richard Wagner Orchestral excerpts from 'Götterdämmerung' Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey; Funeral March Guglielmo Pellarin (horn) Santa Cecilia Orchestra Daniele Gatti (conductor) From Portico in Ards: Carlos Salzedo Variations on an theme in the antique style Op. 30 Manuel Ponce Intermezzo Pierick Houdy Sonata for harp (1st mvt) Thomas Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah: Part 2 Gesualdo Six Owain Park (director)