Best known for his operas, several of which are available on Marco Polo, Siegfried Wagner' songs only really entered the consciousness of the music-loving public when Hanne Lore Kuhse presented an... more

Anton Urspruch was Franz Liszt's favorite pupil and saw himself as a 'progressive modernist.' His music, whilst influenced by his teacher, and by Wagner, diverged from the paths taken by... more

The operas of Siegfried Wagner, first son of Richard Wagner and grandson of Liszt, are gaining recognition as important works in their own right, as this new recording of his thirteenth opera, Der... more

Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner and his second wife Cosima, composed seventeen operas in total, expertly written in a late romantic style derived from the influence of Humperdinck. His... more