Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Tomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer/Wotan), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde), Anna Larsson (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Christian Elsner (Mime), Sophie Klußmann (Stimme eines Waldvogels)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Awards:
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other...
Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Tomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer/Wotan), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde), Anna Larsson (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Christian Elsner (Mime), Sophie Klußmann (Stimme eines Waldvogels)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
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Awards:
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other...
About
This is the ninth release in PentaTone’s successful Wagner Edition and the third release of the cycle: “Der Ring des Nibelungen. The last “Ring recording” (Götterdämmerung) will follow in November 2013. The PentaTone Edition is attracting a lot of (positive) media attention.
It is becoming THE Wagner Edition of the 21st century.
In April their recording of Parsifal won a BBC Music Magazine Award for technical excellence. This comes after an Editor’s Choice for Flying Dutchman and Lohengrin (Gramophone), a “Recording of the Month” for Parsifal (BBC Music Magazine) a “Opera Choice of the Month” for Meistersinger and Lohengrin (BBC Music Magazine) and 3 x CD of the week for one of the albums in the Sunday Times. The Edition is becoming a collector’s item.
Contents and tracklist
- Marek Janowski, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christian Elsner, Stephen Gould, Tomas Konieczny, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Matti Salminen, Sophie Klussmann, Anna Larsson, Violeta Urmana
- Recorded: 1 March 2013
- Recording Venue: Berlin Philharmonie, Germany
Spotlight on this release
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Richard Wagner
1st Mar 2015
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Awards and reviews
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Presto FavouritesRecommended Recording
February 2014
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other recording, combined with terrific drive...In summary, the whole here is very much more than the sum of its parts - worth acquiring.
16th December 2013
[Gould] seems to have the stamina and the power for the role...[Elsner] sings the part with an unfailing beauty of tone and excellent use of the text...That I still believe this Siegfried must be added to any self-respecting Wagner library is mainly because of Janowski’s masterly conducting of his first-rate orchestra. There are many marvellous passages.
March 2015
Stephen Gould is an heroic Siegfried in this outstanding recording conducted by Marek Janowski, with Christian Elsner a highly characterful, scheming Mime, and Tomasz Konieczny suitably world-weary as the Wanderer. The Forest Murmurs scene in Act Two is charmingly evocative...The closing duet is incandescent, assisted in no small part by the heavenly singing of Violeta Urmana as Brünnhilde.
