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2019-04-26 23:00:00
Tristan und Isolde - Runnicles
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) John Treleaven - Christine Brewer-Dagmar Pecková Boaz Daniel - Peter Rose- Jared Holt Apollo Voices BBC Symphony Orchestra dir: Donald Runnicles Warner Classics (2006) 2564629642 4 CD DDD (excellent sound) Rec. live at the Barbican Hall, December 2002 / February 2003 [flac & cue; cover, inlays, booklet & disc scans] Review "Christine Brewer may not be a household name even among committed Wagnerians...yet...but her careful, thoughtful emergence into the impossibly difficult role of Isolde in TRISTAN UND ISOLDE is well documented in this release of the entire opera, a recording dating back to concert performances from 2002 with Donald Runnicles conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. For this listener the release of Brewer's complete Isolde is a bit early as hearing her transform herself into owning the role has produced a far greater Isolde than that committed to this recording. Yet […]
2018-04-13 23:00:00
Dvorak Stabat Mater - Herreweghe
[…] pleasing is the soloists’ contribution. They really listen to each other and achieve a subtle blend with plenty of non-competitive ‘give and take’. Top prize goes to the tenor Maximilian Schmitt, who is always strain-free and equally magnificent whether leading the chorus in the ‘Fac me vere tecum flere’ movement or as part of the balanced quartet. Michaela Selinger relishes her big alto solo ‘Inflammatus et accensus’ with none of the swooping haughtiness of Dagmar Pecková for Järvi, and Ilse Eerens’s top Bs crown the choral texture with a bell-like clarity. This new release must be the top choice. GRAMOPHONE
2018-03-22 15:30:08
Pecková/Samek/Schoenberg CO/Altrichter(Supraphon) Petr Alrichter’s recording of Riehn’s chamber version of Mahler’s almost impossibly taxing song-symphony is well worth the listen Where once it was a curiosity more than anything else, Rainer Riehn’s chamber-ensemble arrangement of Mahler’s great song-symphony, first performed in 1983, seems to appear on disc almost as regularly as the original version nowadays. In 1921, Schoenberg had begun the task of scaling down Mahler’s score so it could be performed at his Society for Private Music Performances in Vienna, but when the society collapsed the same year, he abandoned the project, having reorchestrated only part of the opening movement. Sixty years later, Riehn took over where his great predecessor had left off, making minor adjustments but mostly keeping the same lineup of 15 players. The cut-down version inevitably inhabits a very different sound world from the original, even though Riehn is at pains to preserve as many of […]
2017-07-31 18:42:36
Catch a falling tsar
You’d think by now I’d know better than to make snap judgments about an opera or a singer—but apparently not. By the first intermission of Bard Summerscape’s production of Dvorak’s grand Dimitrij on Sunday I’d decided the piece was static and uninvolving, surely the reasons it’s so rarely done. And after the second act I was scratching my head wondering why one of the sopranos had been hired. But I had to ruefully acknowledge the error of my ways on both accounts by the time the sold-out audience erupted in cheers at the end. The sixth of Dvorak’s ten operas, Leon Botstein’s latest exhumation in Anne Bogart’s clear and effective updated production proved occasionally confounding. While ostensibly concerned with the internecine battle for the succession to tsar after the death of Boris Godunov, the piece comes to life primarily in its expansive exploration of the fraught love-triangle between Dimitrij, […]
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