Vorspiel

Put Emmanuel's cinematography alongside Wagner's "Vorspiel" and you have one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking and tender moments of the decade.

Design of a Decade: The Greatest Hits of the '00s - Part V Glenn Dunks 2010

There is some crowd noise, not a major problem, but still - one wants complete silence for the Vorspiel.

A very good day Patrick J. Smith 2006

There is some crowd noise, not a major problem, but still - one wants complete silence for the Vorspiel.

Archive 2006-07-01 Patrick J. Smith 2006

Bach _Choral Vorspiel_, _Nun Freut euch_, of which I have made an arrangement, and such a composition as the Chopin Prelude Opus 28, No. 3, with its running accompaniment in the left hand.

Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression James Francis Cooke 1917

This _Vorspiel_, like that to "Lohengrin," is short and delicate.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

Vorspiel, the surcharged moment came when the violins, though pushed to their utmost, could go no further, and the clashing cymbals took up the bursting tale.

Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

The Vorspiel, or prelude, to the opera takes for its subject the descent of the Holy Grail, the mysterious symbol of the Christian faith, and the Grail motive is the key to the whole work.

The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

Parsifal - at the end of the weightiest, most yearning Vorspiel one can imagine, as the woodwind sing out into the Bayreuth gloom and the strings disappear into the stratosphere we are suddenly plunged into inky digital silence before the first scene begins.

Where is there an end of it? 2009

My one and only complaint is the lack of intermission between Vorspiel and "opera" proper, especially since the wooden seats of the Bayreuth-like Prinzregenten Theater begin to test the physical limits of the audience for such a long period, reminding one why German, apparently alone among languages, has that particular word Sitzfleisch, or sitting endurance.

Opera Today 2009

Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft, 1886) is arguably a rethinking of Human,

Friedrich Nietzsche Wicks, Robert 2008