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Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra is a seasonal German orchestra based at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus for the annual summer festival Bayreuth Festival. It is reconstituted each season in order to perform Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and other of his stage works, as envisaged by the composer and festival founder. The festival occurs annually, although in some years it was cancelled because of war or other reasons. Although otherwise entirely devoted to the works of Wagner, the inaugural festival in 1876 was opened with a performance of Beethoven's Choral Symphony, and this practice has often been followed subsequently. It has become something of a tradition since Wilhelm Furtwängler reintroduced it in the 1930s. The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra does not have a permanent membership but each year the festival organisers recruit leading musicians from other German orchestras, depending on their availability. Some musicians always arrange their schedules so as to be available for the orchestra; others participate less frequently. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth_Festival_Orchestra) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Songs

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Die Walküre, Act III, Erste Szene: Orchestervorspiel: Hojotoho! Hojotoho! (Ride of the Valkyries)
Festspiel-Orchester Bayreuth /Herbert von Karajan
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Der Fliegende Hollander: Overture
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Mild und leise wie er lächelt (Live at Bayreuther Festspiele / 1966)
Birgit Nilsson
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Prelude
Bayreuther Festspielorchester
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Lohengrin, Act I Scene 3: Zum Kampf für eine Magd zu stehen
Paul Frey, Cheryl Studer, Bayreuther Festspielchor, Bayreuther Festspielorchester, Peter Schneider, and Richard Wagner

Albums

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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Live at the Bayreuth Festival, 1975)

2025
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Wagner at Wahnfried (Live at Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth / 2020)

2020
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Wagner: Siegfried (Recorded 1962)

2013
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Wagner: Tannhäuser (Live at the Bayreuth Festival, 1962)

2025
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Richard Wagner, Los Grandes de la Música Clásica

2015
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Wagner: Gotterdamerung (Recorded 1962)

2013
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Wagner: Parsifal – 1951 Recording (Hans Knappertsbusch - The Opera Edition: Volume 5)

2022
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Op. 125

2014
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral" & Rehearsal (Live)

2021
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Wagner: Lohengrin

2014

Singles & EPs

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Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91: V. Träume (Arr. Tarkmann for High Voice and Chamber Orchestra) (Live at Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth / 2020)

Single • 2020

Videos

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Astrid Varnay sings Brunnhilde's Immolation (STEREO Ring Live from Bayreuth 1955)

Rattus Music Channel • 756 views
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"Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort" (Immolation) from Götterdämmerung

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Richard Wagner - PARSIFAL - Prelude / Vorspiel - Hans Knappertsbusch, 1951

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"Winterstürme" and "Du bist der Lenz" from Die Walküre

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"Steuermann! Laß die Wacht!" - Unofficial Anthem of The Republic of Rose Island

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Tannhäuser: "Dir töne Lob!"

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Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Vorspiel - Vienna / Böhm Tokyo 1975

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Christa Ludwig - Einsam wachend in der Nacht (Brangäne's Warning)

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Opernchor Staatstheater Braunschweig - Steuermann, lass die Wacht 2000

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Richard Wagner: "Steuermann lass die Wacht" - Matrosenchor aus der Oper "Der fliegende Holländer"

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