WAGNER Opera Excerpts
Fischer’s Wagner homage and first taste of Lang’s Brünnhilde
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Composer or Director: Iván Fischer, Richard Wagner
Genre:
Opera
Label: Channel Classics
Magazine Review Date: 08/2013
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 64
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CCSSA32713
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(Die) Meistersinger von Nürnberg, '(The) Masters, Movement: Prelude |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer, Composer Richard Wagner, Composer |
(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 4, 'Götterdämmerung', Movement: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (concert version) |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer, Composer Richard Wagner, Composer |
(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 4, 'Götterdämmerung', Movement: Siegfried's funeral march |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer, Composer Richard Wagner, Composer |
(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 4, 'Götterdämmerung', Movement: Starke Scheite (Brünnhildes's Immolation) |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer, Composer Petra Lang, Soprano Richard Wagner, Composer |
Siegfried Idyll |
Richard Wagner, Composer
Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer, Composer Richard Wagner, Composer |
Author:
The run-in to curtain-up in Meistersinger, the gentle (but not sentimental) little rits and ralls in the Siegfried Idyll, the trilling of the winds that hurl happy, young, innocent Siegfried down the Rhine, the pain of the Funeral Music are re-minted here. Alongside Jonathan Nott’s accompaniment of Klaus Florian Vogt (Sony, 6/13) and Donald Runnicles’s of Jonas Kaufmann (Decca, 5/13), Fischer’s work stands as some of the finest new conducting yet put on disc in Wagner’s bicentenary year.
And the soloist? As a colleague used to say, ‘if you start like this, they’ll want blood,’ and that’s exactly what the fiery Petra Lang, a Brünnhilde debutante this year (hear her in the completion of Janowski’s Pentatone Ring cycle), delivers here. Like Anja Silja’s, this is a voice and personality engaged in the drama: dynamics, tone, colour all serve Brünnhilde’s dark, serious ride into the fire – about as far away from the grand opera of Deborah Voigt and her Metropolitan mechanical horse as you can imagine. Hugely recommended.
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