Der fliegende Holländer
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Der fliegende Holländer
Christian Gerhaher, Christiane Iven, Alaistair Mills, Werner Gura / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
[ RCO Live SACD / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 24 November 2014
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The Wagner year 2013 brought something special to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's concert schedule. The RCO pulled out all the stops with a full performance of this Wagner opera in concert version. Busy carving out an impressive career for himself and making his fifth appearance at Bayreuth last summer, Andris Nelsons has certainly earned his spurs as a Wagner specialist. He is led the RCO and a cast of international soloists in 'Der fliegende Holländer', an opera about the captain of an infamous Dutch ghost ship who can be freed only by a woman who consents to marry him.
"Stensvold's Dutchman is noble and warm-toned, but conveys little deep feeling...That leaves the honours to Jane Henschel's lively Mary, and still more to Anja Kampe's Senta. Her voice has hardened somewhat...but her expressive power more than compensates, a compellingly passionate, impetuous performance." (BBC Music Magazine, April 2015)
"The conductor and his orchestra are exciting throughout … there's always time and (musical) balance for the provate moments in a basically swift traversal of the score … Stensvold's enunciation of the role through the text is both moving and understanding … Fine recording. Hugely recommended." (Gramophone, May 2015)
"Ventris is an ardent yet sensitively attuned Erik and Russell Thomas a fresh voiced, agile Steersman. Anja Kampe provides one of the best Sentas on disc … there's a welcome fullness and firmness to her tone at all levels of pitch and dynamic, together with a sense of identification with the character's obsessiveness … a well performed account of Wagner's Hollander" (Wagner Journal, June 2015)
