MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Tannhauser (complete opera recorded in 2012)
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RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Tannhauser (complete opera recorded in 2012)
Robert Dean Smith, Nina Stemme, Marina Prudenskaya, Christian Gerhaher / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
[ Pentatone SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Monday 14 January 2013
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This is the 6th instalment of PentaTone's successful Wagner Edition. It is the first time in the recording history that a label records all major Wagner opera's with the same orchestra, choir and conductor. This makes the PentaTone Wagner Edition a great collector's item. After this release follows Der Ring des Nibelungen. The 4 opera's of the "The Ring" will all be released in the course of 2013, The WAGNER YEAR (Celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth in 1813)
All operas are recorded live in the Philharmonie in Berlin. The first five recordings were awarded with "Editor's Choice" (Gramophone), Recording of the Month and Opera Choice of the Month (BBC Music Magazine), CD of the week (Sunday Times).
"Janowski keeps the score, which has some longueurs, moving and builds up impressive climaxes in each act...Prudenskaya, though her enunciation is vague, is adequately sexy...Stemme sound[s] too heroic for the part...but she makes an impression. All told I would say that this is the best recording since that made in Bayreuth in 1962." BBC Music
"Janowski's casting aims at getting an audible distinction between each voice...Both women have the measure of their words...while Robert Dean Smith - apparently a late substitute - continues to develop with a passionate assault on the fiendish title-role. Swift tempi and light orchestral/choral textures...complete a potentially exciting live performance...but the lack of understood drama behind Janowski's conducting gets in the way" Gramophone
"Janowski's live concert recordings of Wagner show him to be an eminently sane conductor; nothing is forced or exaggerated, the tempi flow naturally, the pace is generally assured...Christian Gerhaher's Wolfram is a model of elegance and Marina Prudenskaya's tangy mezzo suits Venus." Opera Now
