Wagner: Tannhäuser (Dresden version)
Klaus König (Tannhäuser), Lucia Popp (Elisabeth), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Bernd Weikl (Wolfram), Kurt Moll (Landgraf)
Bernard Haitink
Awards:
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Building a Library, May 2013, First Choice on CD (Dresden version)
Haitink charts a leisurely course through Wagner's Tannhauser...Best of the principals is Lucia Popp's fresh Elisabeth. Waltraud Meier's Venus is potent yet sounds a touch stretched...Kurt Moll's...
Wagner: Tannhäuser (Dresden version)
Klaus König (Tannhäuser), Lucia Popp (Elisabeth), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Bernd Weikl (Wolfram), Kurt Moll (Landgraf)
Bernard Haitink
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Awards:
-
Building a Library, May 2013, First Choice on CD (Dresden version)
Haitink charts a leisurely course through Wagner's Tannhauser...Best of the principals is Lucia Popp's fresh Elisabeth. Waltraud Meier's Venus is potent yet sounds a touch stretched...Kurt Moll's...
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The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI - The Home of Opera.
Bonus Disc contains synopsis and libretto with translation.
Contents and tracklist
- Donald Litaker (vocals), Bernd Weikl (bass-baritone), Kurt Moll (bass), Walton Grönroos (bass-baritone), Rainer Scholze (bass), Siegfried Jerusalem (vocals), Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Klaus König (tenor), Vier Tölzer Knaben (featured vocalist), Gabriele Sima (soprano)
- Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bayerischer Rundfunk
- Bernard Haitink
- Recorded: 1985-01-13
- Recording Venue: 2-13 January 1985/Herkulessaal, Munch, Bavaria
Tannhäuser: Overture
Track length13:44
This track is only available as an album download.
Was hor ich?
Track length10:56
This track is only available as an album download.
Als ich erwacht, auf odem Platze lag
Track length10:14
This track is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
February 2011
Haitink charts a leisurely course through Wagner's Tannhauser...Best of the principals is Lucia Popp's fresh Elisabeth. Waltraud Meier's Venus is potent yet sounds a touch stretched...Kurt Moll's Landgrave [is] firm and Bernd Weikl's Wolfram both warm and humane.
Haitink’s conducting is direct and fiery. He relishes the fleshpots of the Venusberg scene, captures the fevered ecstasy of the hero’s hymn to Venus, and directs the contentious doings on the Wartburg with theatrical verve. … Klaus König certainly has the muscle and stamina for the title role and also encompasses its vein of inner torture
January 2011
this 1985 performance is splendid. It's animated, light on its feet, and notable for some phenomenal orchestral playing...[Popp] is magnificent here...above all it is the commitment, drive and sensitivity of Haitink's conducting that presents the strongest possible case for the work...I don't know a more persuasive performance of the 1860 version
