Wagner: Opera Scenes & Arias
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Opera Scenes & Arias
Jessye Norman (soprano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
[ Warner Classics Redline / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 15 October 2018
When American soprano Jessye Norman presented this Wagner recording with scenes featuring his great heroines, critics praised the singer's immense charisma and the transparent orchestral sound. There can be no doubt about it: Ms Norman and conductor Klaus Tennstedt created a milestone in the Wagner discography and in the portrayal of the composer's tragic heroines Senta, Elisabeth, Brünnhilde and Isolde.
"Norman's voice, straddling with ease the range between soprano and mezzo, had a richness of tone that is all too rare in heroic sopranos of any generation...She rides triumphantly over any possible difficulties [in the Immolation Scene] and Tennstedt crowns the performance with a superlative and measured account of the lengthy postlude." MusicWeb
Tracks:
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1
Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90, Act 3, Final Scene: "Mild und leise wie er lächelt"
Tannhäuser (Dresden Version), WWV 70, Act 2 Scene 1: Einleitung - "Dich, teure Halle, grüss ich wieder"
Tannhäuser (Dresden Version), WWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: "Allmächt'ge Jungfrau, hör mein Flehen!"
Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63, Act 2 Scene 1: Ballade, "Johohoe! Traft ihr das Schiff im Meere an"
Götterdämmerung - Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort 'Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene'
