Staatskapelle Berlin - Mahler: Sinfonie No. 5 & Vier Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (1986/2021) Hi-Res

Memories begin to shine, contemporary witnesses are addressed on sound recordings, even if they were more than thirty years ago. “He was very relaxed, not overly concentrated - a fantastic conductor, with ease and enthusiasm. These songs needed an orchestra that expresses the pure expression «, said the singer Siegfried Lorenz about the recording of the Wunderhorn songs with Otmar Suitner. Lothar Friedrich, long-time violinist of the Staatskapelle Berlin, adds to Mahler's 5th Symphony: “When I hear the recording today, I feel confirmed. Suitner achieved a great balance - here his emotionality, there an approach regulated by intellect. «An Austrian conducted Mahler in the GDR. An unusual constellation at the highest artistic level.

On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Staatskapelle Berlin, the most legendary recordings of the orchestra with Otmar Suitner and Günther Herbig were restored and remastered.

These jewels from the large catalog of the record label Eterna, recorded in the Christ Church in Berlin-Schöneweide, were specially remastered from the original tapes. The special anniversary of the time:honored orchestra is celebrated in a festive manner across the borders of Berlin and Germany. attention is drawn to this edition.

The Staatskapelle Berlin can now look back on a history of 450 years, with all sorts of upheavals and reorientations. The Kurbrandenburgische Hofkapelle, first mentioned in 1570, forms the origin of the ensemble that became the Royal Prussian Court Orchestra in the 18th century and, after the November Revolution of 1918, the Staatskapelle Berlin. It had long since developed into a large, powerful opera and symphony orchestra, with important artists at the top. This and the next season, throughout 2020, we will celebrate this extraordinary anniversary.

Siegfried Lorenz, baritone
Staatskapelle Berlin
Otmar Suitner, conductor

Digitally remastered