Composer: Richard Wagner
Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Conductor: Marek Janowski
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Release: 2016
Size: 2.16 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Parsifal
01. Act I: Prelude
02. Act III: Prelude
Siegfried Idyll
03. Siegfried Idyll
Siegfried
04. Siegfried, Act III: Intermezzo
Götterdämmerung
05. Act I: Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
06. Act III: Siegfried’s Funeral March
Der fliegende Holländer
07. Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): Overture
Lohengrin
08. Act I: Prelude
09. Act III: Prelude
Tannhäuser
00. Overture
11. Act III: Prelude
Tristan und Isolde
12. Act I: Prelude
13. Act III: Prelude
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
14. Act I: Prelude
15. Act III: Prelude
Celebrating the conductorMarek Janowski’s triumphant Ring cycle at this year’s Bayreuth festival, PENTATONE rounds off his groundbreaking survey ofWagner’s operas with the release of a double album featuring orchestral highlights from the series.
Recorded in PENTATONE’s state of the art multi-channel surround sound, the album contains the popular overtures and preludes from Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, as well as orchestral excerpts from Siegfried, Götterdämmerung and Parsifal. Also included is the previously unreleased Siegfried Idyll, the symphonic poem that Wagner wrote for the birthday of his wife Cosima.
The overtures, preludes and interludes in Wagner’s operas have always had broad appeal with audiences for their heady, intoxicating atmosphere and vivid orchestration. During Wagner’s lifetime, his contemporaries made arrangements and potpourris from the operas to satisfy an ever enthusiastic public, bowdlerisingWagner’s scores in the process. In these vibrant recordings, however, Janowski remains faithful to Wagner’s original vision and uses conclusions either written or authorized by Wagner himself.
This release is accompanied with notes on the music by the dramaturge and musicologist Steffen Georgi.