Richard Wagner

Evening Music | May 6, 2010

We mark the beginning of the Easter holiday with a selection from Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal, inspired by the search for the Holy Grail. Also, music from Claude Bolling and Dino Saluzzi.


Also Featured Tonight:

Carter Burwell / Sweet Lorraine
Traditional / "Crucifixion"
Franz Liszt / Via Crucis
Franz Joseph Haydn / The Seven Last Words:Sonata IV,Largo
Carlo Gesualdo / "Tenebrae": in II & III, Nocturno (excerpt)

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