Nashville Symphony: Lord of 'The Ring'

SunTrust Classical Series: Lord of 'The Ring'

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Louis Lortie, piano

Ravel - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major
Wagner - The Ring Without Words
‘The Ring’ Without Words distills Wagner’s sprawling masterpiece into a spectacular symphonic journey through the composer’s mythical world of heroes and gods, dwarves and giants. Fusing the opera’s main musical ideas — including the classic “Ride of the Valkyries” theme — into one cohesive whole, this larger-than-life… Show more piece takes listeners from the depths of the Rhine to the great hall of Valhalla and into the underground caves of the Nibelung. Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand was originally commissioned for an Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, and the music overflows with drama and moments of dazzling, explosive beauty.

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