Wagner reviews

Beethoven • Verdi • Wagner (Lise Davidsen)

Lise Davidsen (soprano); London Philharmonic Orchestra/Mark Elder (Decca)
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Im Abendrot (Matthias Goerne/Seong-Jin Cho)

Matthias Goerne (baritone), Seong-Jin Cho (piano) (DG)
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 2, etc (Gewandhausorchester/Nelsons)

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Andris Nelsons (DG)
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Visions of Childhood

April Fredrick (soprano); English Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Woods (Nimbus)
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Wagner: Lohengrin

Michael König, Simone Schneider, et al; Stuttgart Opera Choir & Orchestra/Cornelius Meister (Bel Air Classiques / DVD)
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Lento Religioso

Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson (Channel Classics)
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Organ Prom

John Challenger (organ) (Salisbury Cathedral)
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Träume (Wagner Arias)

Jenufa Gleich (soprano); BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Fabrice Bollon (Stone Records)
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Wagner: Das Rheingold

James Rutherford, David Jerusalem, et al; Duisburg Philharmonic/Axel Kober (CAVi-music)
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Wagner: Lohengrin

Georg Zeppenfeld, Klaus Florian Vogt, Annete Dasch, Petra Lang, Jukka Rasilainen, Samuel Youn; Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra/Andris Nelsons (Opus Arte; DVD)
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Wagner: Das Rheingold

Sarah Tynan, Madeleine Shaw, Leah-Marian Jones, Samuel Youn, Iain Paterson, Susan Bickley et al; Hallé/Mark Elder (Hallé)
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4; Wagner: Lohengrin – Prelude

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Andris Nelsons (DG)
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Wagner: Die Walküre (ROH/Pappano)

Nina Stemme, John Lundgren, et al; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden/Antonio Pappano (Opus Arte / DVD)
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An iconic staging of Wagner’s Die Walküre

The cast in this 2018 staging would have been the envy of every world class opera company. The result is just short of perfection
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1; plus Wagner & Strauss Orchestral Works

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra/Erich Leinsdorf (Eloquence)
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Liszt: Prometheus/Wagner: Siegfried

Paris Conservatoire, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra/Karl Münchinger (Eloquence)
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Gun-Brit Barkmin, Daniel Brenna, et al; Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden (Naxos)
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Igor Levit: Life

Igor Levit (Sony Classical)
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

WASO Chorus; St George’s Cathedral Consort; West Australian Symphony Orchestra/Asher Fisch, et al (ABC Classic)
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The Wagner Project

Matthias Goerne (baritone); Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding (Harmonia Mundi)
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Die Walküre performed at Salzburg Festival 2017

This Salzburg production was billed as a recreation of Herbert von Karajan’s classic 1967 staging, but on this DVD ‘recreation’ acquires inverted commas – advisedly, because it’s nothing of the sort. 

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Wagner's Parsifal conducted by Hartmut Haenchen with the Bavarian Festival Orchestra and Choir

This production from last year’s Bayreuth Festival was involved in even more controversy than that enterprise usually generates, with a replaced director, a conductor who took over in the last weeks of rehearsal, and police on guard round the Festspielhaus in case Muslims were upset. They might easily have been, but so might adherents of other religions. Wagner’s music is of course intact here, but very little else is.

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Jun Märkl conducts Wagner's Concert Overtures Nos 1 & 2 and other works for orchestra

Wagner’s earliest works, once derided – not least by himself – have recently attracted more serious attention. Certainly they reveal an unusually promising composer, already above the ordinary for his day and with occasional startling flashes of the genius to come. Jun Märkl and the excellent MDR Leipzig Radio players, rather brightly recorded, provide a lively selection.

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Tenor Ticho Parly sings extracts from operas by Wagner and Beethoven

In his career Danish-American Parly won more plaudits for his acting and appearance than his vibrant but sinewy voice. Yet in this programme he makes many modern heldentenors sound mediocre.

Michael Scott Rohan


 

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