Composer: Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner
Performer: Deborah Voigt
Orchestra: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Es-Dur
Catalogue: ES2044
Release: 2014
Size: 780 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
01. Tableau I: Prologue: The Birth of Apollo
02. Tableau II: Apollo’s Variation
03. Tableau II: Pas d’action: Apollo and the Muses
04. Tableau II: Variation of Calliope
05. Tableau II: Variation of Polymnia
06. Tableau II: Variation of Terpsichore
07. Tableau II: Variation of Apollo
08. Tableau II: Pas de deux: Apollo and Terpsichore
09. Tableau II: Coda. Apollo and the Muses
10. Tableau II: Apotheosis: Apollo and the Muses
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
11. Prologue: Orchesterzwischenspiel – Lass’ ich, Liebste, dich hier
12. Prologue: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Siegfried’s Rhine Journey)
Act III
13. Siegfrieds Trauermarsch (Siegfried’s Funeral March)
14. Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort
15. Mein Erbe nun nehm’ ich zu eigen
16. Grane, mein Ross
This concert is something special due to the presence of the superstar American soprano Deborah Voigt and the magnetic direction of English conductor Jeffrey Tate. “What he brings out in the orchestra scenes from “Twilight of the gods” is indeed “divine”,” said one German critic. In fact, ‘Divine’ is the title of this CD/DVD release in which scenes from Gotterdammerung are preceded by Stravinsky’s ballet Apollon Musagète.
The concerts of the Hamburger Symphoniker are always remarkable – director Daniel Kühnel and the renowned orchestra director Jeffrey Tate have made excellent – and enviable – names for themselves since the start of their cooperation in 2009 with their distinguished programming for the orchestra. And they follow unusual paths: in order to record this live concert in the Hamburg Laeiszhalle (in 2012) for the DVD, the Hamburger Symphoniker was the first German classical music organisation to partially finance it via crowdfunding, the new form of donation collection online.