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Die toten Augen is as sensuously chromatic as it is richly orchestrated

Written 30 years before , Wagner’s was also inspired by Wolfram’s medieval epics. Here we see Wagner moving away for the first time from theplot is every bit as complex, its musical journey (including the ‘Bridal Chorus’) just as involving. (Johan Botha et al/ Semyon Bychkov ).

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