More Wagner for the bicentenary year, this time with rarely head Vocalions from Adrian Boult in the overture to the Flying Dutchman and the Procession of Masters from Die Meistersinger (both 1927), and from Stanley Chapple in the Act 3 Prelude from Lohengrin (1927) and the Siegfried Idyll (a late acoustic recording from around 1925)

Wagner – Der fliegende Holländer – Overture
Festival Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Wagner – Flying Dutchman – Overture – Boult

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Vocalion K-05296
Matrices M.0325, M.0326
Recorded 9th March 1927, Kingsway Hall, London

Wagner – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Procession of Masters
Festival Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult

Wagner – The Mastersingers – Procession of Masters – Boult

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Vocalion K-05302
Matrix M.0393
Recorded 5th May 1927, Kingsway Hall, London

Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Modern Chamber Orchestra, Stanley Chapple

Wagner – Siegfried Idyll – Chapple

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Vocalion K-05157, K-05158
Matrices 03836XX, 03837XX, 03838, 03839
Recorded c1925, London

Wagner – Lohengrin – Introduction to Act 3
Festival Symphony Orchestra, Stanley Chapple

Wagner – Lohengrin – Act 3 Prelude – Chapple

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Vocalion K-05302
Matrix M.0296
Recorded early 1927, London