Halle, Mark Elder - Wagner: Parsifal, Der Fliegende Holländer, Die Meistersinger, & Tristan und Isolde (2007)
BAND/ARTIST: Halle, Mark Elder
- Title: Wagner: Parsifal, Der Fliegende Holländer, Die Meistersinger, & Tristan und Isolde
- Year Of Release: 2007
- Label: Halle Concerts Society
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 01:12:38
- Total Size: 261 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Parsifal
02. Parsifal
03. Der Fliegende Holländer
04. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
05. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
06. Tristan und Isolde
07. Tristan und Isolde
This is old-fashioned, hot-blooded Wagner, with plenty of passion, lots of power, and, best of all, flowing tempos. One might have thought that the only way to get such performances these days one would have to pull out aging Furtwängler recordings, but in fact these performances are by Mark Elder with Manchester's Hallé orchestra. And though the accounts here might not be quite in the same league as Furtwängler's with the Berliner or Wiener Philharmoniker, this 2009 disc is still supremely -- and for its time -- uniquely beautiful. As they've amply demonstrated in their earlier recordings of Elgar and Strauss, Elder and the Hallé have forged an exemplary musical partnership especially adept at hyper-expressive late-Romantic music. And with its aching emotionality, probing spirituality, and thrusting sensuality, there is no late-Romantic music more hyper-expressive than Wagner's. Here, Elder and the Hallé pour on the lush colors, the rich textures, and the warm tone in excerpts from Parsifal, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Tristan und Isolde, the latter with the heart-quickening contribution of soprano Anja Kampe. But, as noted above, the best thing about Elder's interpretations are the tempos. Effortlessly flowing and endlessly supple but inevitable, Elder's Wagner sounds utterly natural, completely unaffected, and absolutely right. Anyone who has been following Elder and the Hallé's later recordings will surely want to hear this disc, along with everyone who reveres Wagner's music.
01. Parsifal
02. Parsifal
03. Der Fliegende Holländer
04. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
05. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
06. Tristan und Isolde
07. Tristan und Isolde
This is old-fashioned, hot-blooded Wagner, with plenty of passion, lots of power, and, best of all, flowing tempos. One might have thought that the only way to get such performances these days one would have to pull out aging Furtwängler recordings, but in fact these performances are by Mark Elder with Manchester's Hallé orchestra. And though the accounts here might not be quite in the same league as Furtwängler's with the Berliner or Wiener Philharmoniker, this 2009 disc is still supremely -- and for its time -- uniquely beautiful. As they've amply demonstrated in their earlier recordings of Elgar and Strauss, Elder and the Hallé have forged an exemplary musical partnership especially adept at hyper-expressive late-Romantic music. And with its aching emotionality, probing spirituality, and thrusting sensuality, there is no late-Romantic music more hyper-expressive than Wagner's. Here, Elder and the Hallé pour on the lush colors, the rich textures, and the warm tone in excerpts from Parsifal, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Tristan und Isolde, the latter with the heart-quickening contribution of soprano Anja Kampe. But, as noted above, the best thing about Elder's interpretations are the tempos. Effortlessly flowing and endlessly supple but inevitable, Elder's Wagner sounds utterly natural, completely unaffected, and absolutely right. Anyone who has been following Elder and the Hallé's later recordings will surely want to hear this disc, along with everyone who reveres Wagner's music.
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