Opera
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Albert Dohmen, Georg Zeppenfeld etc; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir/ Marek Janowski 'This Meistersinger is imbued with incessant vitality and energy'
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‘This Meistersinger is imbued with incessant vitality and energy’ Michael Tanner
Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Albert Dohmen, Georg Zeppenfeld, Michael Smallwood, Sebastian Noack, Dietrich Henschel, Tuomas Pursio, Jörg Schörner, Thomas Ebenstein, Thorsten Scharnke, Tobias Berndt, Hans-Peter Scheidegger, Hyung Wook Lee, Robert Dean Smith, Peter Sonn, Edith Haller, Michelle Breedt, Matti Salminen, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir/ Marek Janowski
PentaTone PTC 5186 402 (hybrid CD/SACD) 253:15 mins (4 discs)
Audio clip: from Act III, Scene 1 ‘Wahn! Wahn! Uberall Wahn!’
For a full review see the February issue of BBC Music Magazine
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Authors
Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.