1939-07-22a

Wagner: from Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Funeral Music

Felix Weingartner, conductor

DESCRIPTION: 2 discs, 78 rpm, 12 in.

NOTES: Recorded 22 July 1939.

  • Columbia fr. LX 925[-26]
    • = Columbia US Masterworks set 224 (71384-85D) (78 MX 224). Rev. April 1939ff.
    • Rpt. as LP with prelude to act III of Tannhäuser (39~130), prelude to act III of Tristan und Isolde (39~140), Siegfried-Idyll (London PO) in Columbia ML 4680 (Columbia Masterworks "Special Collectors" Series). 1 disc, 33 1/3 rpm, mono, 12 in. Program notes by Susan Burroughs on slipcase. [1953]. $5.45. Rev. July 1953ff.
    • Funeral Music as LP, in Felix Weingartner Conducts Concert Favorites (with works of Weber and Schubert / Basel CO; Beethoven / Vienna PO; Brahms / LSO), Past Masters PM 12.

INDEX: 39~110