This handsome affordable volume includes the Overtures to The Flying Dutchman and Rienzi; the Overture and Introduction to Act III of Tannhäuser; the Preludes to Acts I and III of Lohengrin; the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde; the Prelude to Act ... read more
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This handsome affordable volume includes the Overtures to The Flying Dutchman and Rienzi; the Overture and Introduction to Act III of Tannhäuser; the Preludes to Acts I and III of Lohengrin; the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde; the Prelude to Act I of Parsifal; and the Prelude to Act I of Meistersinger.
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