Special offer. Wagner: Tannhäuser
Robert Dean Smith (Tannhäuser), Nina Stemme (Elisabeth), Marina Prudenskaya (Venus), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Peter Sonn (Walther von der Vogelweide), Albert Dohmen (Landgraf Hermann von Thüringen)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
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]...
Special offer. Wagner: Tannhäuser
Robert Dean Smith (Tannhäuser), Nina Stemme (Elisabeth), Marina Prudenskaya (Venus), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Peter Sonn (Walther von der Vogelweide), Albert Dohmen (Landgraf Hermann von Thüringen)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
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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]...
About
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).
Based on the reviews of the concert we expect high scores for the Tannhäuser recording as well.
Contents and tracklist
- Marek Janowski, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marina Prudenskaya, Robert Dean Smith, Bianca Reim, Albert Dohmen, Peter Sonn, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Christian Gerhaher, Michael McCown, Martin Snell
- Recorded: 5 May 2012
- Recording Venue: Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
- Nina Stemme, Marek Janowski, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christian Gerhaher, Robert Dean Smith, Albert Dohmen, Sabine Puhlmann, Isabelle Voßkühler, Roksolana Chraniuk, Bettina Pieck, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Peter Sonn, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Michael McCown
- Recorded: 5 May 2012
- Recording Venue: Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Christian Gerhaher, Nina Stemme, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Robert Dean Smith, Marina Prudenskaya, Peter Sonn, Michael McCown, Martin Snell, Albert Dohmen
- Recorded: 5 May 2012
- Recording Venue: Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Awards and reviews
May 2013
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.
April 2013
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.
Opera Now
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.
