Cornelius Meister reviews
Wagner: Lohengrin
Michael König, Simone Schneider, et al; Stuttgart Opera Choir & Orchestra/Cornelius Meister (Bel Air Classiques / DVD)
Henze: Der Prinz von Homburg (Stuttgart, 2019)
Vera-Lotte Böcker (soprano), Helene Schneiderman (mezzo-soprano), et al; Orchestra of the Staatsoper Stuttgart/Cornelius Meister (Naxos, DVD)
Massenet: Werther
Juan Diego Flórez, Anna Stéphany et al; Chor der Oper Zürich; Philharmonia Zürich/Cornelius Meister; dir. Tatjana Gürbaca (Accentus; DVD)
Martinů's Symphonies Nos 1-6 conducted by Cornelius Meister
There’s no reason why an Austrian or a German orchestra shouldn’t play Martinů’s six astonishing symphonies, as well as the Czechs (or Brits under a Czech conductor, in the late Jiří Bělohlávek’s magnificent second cycle). After all, Jakub Hrůša, next in line to set his seal on these masterpieces, told me in interview that one of his major discoveries recently was to find such a thing as a common middle-European sound world, and Martinůoften fits that identity with his homesick thoughts of Moravia from exile in America and Switzerland.