{"product_id":"wagner-richard-parsifal-van-zweden-jaap-netherlands-radio-philharmonic","title":"WAGNER: PARSIFAL - JAAP VAN ZWEDEN, NETHERLANDS RADIO PHILHARMONIC (4 HYBRID SACDS + BONUS DVD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/officialaboutthisrecordingsept2022_1b671117-a747-449a-9403-66663edc8519_480x480.png?v=1681155916\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilosopher Ernst Bloch once referred to the ‘Bühnenweihfestspiel’ or consecrational stage festival Parsifal as ‘a metaphysical adagio’. In these few words he summed up the story line and the musical purport of Wagner's last opera – that is, if such a thing is at all possible in his operas, because as a composer Wagner was never at a loss for words when it came to bandying about statements artistic and non-artistic about the world in general and the universe in particular. Wagner’s musical theatre revolves around fundamental questions of human existence. Tristan und Isolde is about an all-consuming love, but also about the implications of the longing for love and the death wish. The work is about defining an identity through love and the loss of that identity through that same love. Der Ring des Nibelungen is about the incompatibility of love and the pursuit of power; it is also an in-depth exploration of the question of whether man has a free will, and it is about the eternal cycle of destruction and renewal which holds mankind captive on this earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParsifal is about all of the above and much, much more. Wagner himself defined the theme of his swan song as ‘Das große Leid des Lebens’, the great suffering of life. Everything he still wanted to say at the end of his life about life, love, sex, psychology, politics, society, nature, art, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism and anti-Semitism was mixed together in a grail chalice (poisonous, according to some) to form a ‘metaphysical adagio' of four hours of consecrational musical drama. Consecrational in the literal meaning of the word. Wagner’s own name for the genre, ‘Bühnenweihfestspiel’ means a consecrational stage festival. The plot of Parsifal refers implicitly and explicitly to Christianity and religious rites. Indeed, it was one of Wagner’s many ambitions to replace European Christianity by his own ritual art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ring Wagner had to resolve the ‘problem’ of love in a new work. That work was Parsifal. The essential difference with all his prior works is the fact that there is no love in Parsifal. All the characters live in a loveless universe in which only the urge to reproduce – desire, lust – remains. Although Wagner's answer to this remains to be seen for the time being, one thing is important here. With Schopenhauer, Wagner does not view the urge to reproduce as morally reprehensible. He situated Siegfried, who suffered from the same fault in the Ring, in an amoral universe, not an immoral one – in a world where morals are not violated, but where all moral is absent. This is also the case in Parsifal, and it is part of the secret of Wagner’s huge success in the nineteenth century. (Part of the programme information written by Willem Bruls)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/officialTRACKLISTINGWITHWORLD_b79a4887-e333-4cca-a4b2-e2b81d298cf5_480x480.png?v=1681155905\" alt=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/officialTRACKLISTINGWITHWORLD_b79a4887-e333-4cca-a4b2-e2b81d298cf5_480x480.png?v=1681155905\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc #1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 01. ACT I: Vorspiel 12:24\u003cbr\u003e 02. ACT I: He! Ho! Waldhüter ihr 08:24\u003cbr\u003e 03. ACT I: Recht so! - Habt Dank! - Ein wenig Rast 05:52\u003cbr\u003e 04. ACT I: Nicht Dank! - Haha! Was wird es helfen? 07:57\u003cbr\u003e 05. ACT I: O wunden-wundervoller heiliger Speer! 03:44\u003cbr\u003e 06. ACT I: Titurel, der fromme Held, der kannt?ihn wohl 10:54\u003cbr\u003e 07. ACT I: Weh! Weh!... Wer ist der Frevler? 07:03\u003cbr\u003e 08. ACT I: Nun sag! Nichts weißt du, was ich dich frage 07:01\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc #2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 01. ACT I: Vom Bade kehrt der König heim 02:04\u003cbr\u003e 02. ACT I: Verwandlungsmusik 03:45\u003cbr\u003e 03. ACT I: Nun achte wohl und laß mich seh?n 07:09\u003cbr\u003e 04. ACT I: Mein Sohn Amfortas, bist du am Amt? 11:01\u003cbr\u003e 05. ACT I: Enthüllet den Gral! 07:39\u003cbr\u003e 06. ACT I: Wein und Brot des letzten Mahles 11:15\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc #3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 01. ACT II: Vorspiel 01:59\u003cbr\u003e 02. ACT II: Die Zeit ist da. - Schon lockt mein Zauberschloß den Toren 03:40\u003cbr\u003e 03. ACT II: Ach! - Ach! Tiefe Nacht! 10:40\u003cbr\u003e 04. ACT II: Hier war das Tosen! Hier, hier! 04:05\u003cbr\u003e 05. ACT II: Komm, komm, holder Knabe! 04:59\u003cbr\u003e 06. ACT II: Parsifal! - Weile! 02:46\u003cbr\u003e 07. ACT II: Dies alles hab?ich nun geträumt? 08:46\u003cbr\u003e 08. ACT II: Wehe! Wehe! Was tat ich? Wo war ich? 04:24\u003cbr\u003e 09. ACT II: Amfortas! - Die Wunde! - Die Wunde! 08:28\u003cbr\u003e 10. ACT II: Grausamer! Fühlst du im Herzen nur and?rer Schmerzen 12:11\u003cbr\u003e 11. ACT II: Vergeh, unseliges Weib! 04:01\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisc #4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 01. ACT III: Vorspiel 05:10\u003cbr\u003e 02. ACT III: Von dorther kam das Stöhnen 07:55\u003cbr\u003e 03. ACT III: Heil dir, mein Gast! 06:34\u003cbr\u003e 04. ACT III: Heil mir, daß ich dich wiederfinde! 04:21\u003cbr\u003e 05. ACT III: O Herr! War es ein Fluch 07:07\u003cbr\u003e 06. ACT III: Nicht so! - Die heil?ge Quelle selbst erquicke unsres Pilgers Bad 04:00\u003cbr\u003e 07. ACT III: Gesegnet sei, du Reiner, durch das Reine!... 05:00\u003cbr\u003e 08. ACT III: Wie dünkt mich doch die Aue heut so schön! 02:45\u003cbr\u003e 09. ACT III: Du siehst, das ist nicht so 06:36\u003cbr\u003e 10. 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