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Wagner: Wesendonck-lieder, Overtures / Stemme, Dausgaard, Swedish Chamber Orchestra

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Composer
WAGNER, RICHARD
Artist
Thomas, Dausgaard
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Apr 01, 2013
Catalog #
BIS-2022
UPC
7318599920221

About

In their exploration of the symphonic repertoire of the Romantic era, Thomas Dausgaard and his Swedish Chamber Orchestra have previously recorded Bruckner, Tchaikovsky and most recently Brahms, in performances described as ‘exhilarating’ (The Observer) and ‘stirring’ (ClassicsToday.com). As they take on the music by another archetypal nineteenth-century composer, Richard Wagner, they are joined by one of today’s foremost Wagner singers. Named ‘Singer of the Year’ by the magazine Opernwelt in 2012, Nina Stemme has been the Isolde of choice at Glyndebourne, Bayreuth and Covent Garden. She here performs the five Wesendonck Songs – of which two in particular, Im Treibhaus and Träume, were referred to by their composer as ‘studies’ for Tristan and Isolde. Wagner himself prepared a version for violin and orchestra of Träume, which the conductor Felix Mottl incorporated when, supervised by the composer, he made an orchestration of the set. These songs to texts by Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner’s muse during the 1850s, are framed by two versions of the overture to The Flying Dutchman, the rarely heard 1841 original version and the composer’s final creation from 1860, with its new ending inspired by Tristan, composed three years earlier. Concerning his revisions, Wagner wrote to Mathilde: ‘Now that I have composed Isolde’s last transfiguration, I could at last find the right close for this Fliegender-Holländer overture’. Included is also the Siegfried Idyll, composed in 1870 as one of Wagner’s few purely orchestral works. It is known by this title because it was presented as a gift to Cosima Wagner, who had recently given birth to the couple’s son Siegfried, but also because it uses themes from the opera Siegfried, which was then nearing completion. Closing the disc is the stately prelude to another opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, in which Wagner with a spectacular use of counterpoint – ‘applied Bach’ was his own description – aspires to express the idea of a reconciliation between artistic freedom and respect for tradition.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman): Overture (1841 version) 08:37
    Track
    1
    Title
    Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman): Overture (1841 version)
    Duration
    08:37
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  2. 2 No. 1. Der Engel (The Angel) 02:44
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 1. Der Engel (The Angel)
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Nina Stemme
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  3. 3 No. 2. Stehe still (Stand Still) 03:37
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 2. Stehe still (Stand Still)
    Duration
    03:37
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Nina Stemme
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  4. 4 No. 3. Im Treibhaus (In the Hothouse) 05:44
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3. Im Treibhaus (In the Hothouse)
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Nina Stemme
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  5. 5 No. 4. Schmerzen (Pain) 04:13
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 4. Schmerzen (Pain)
    Duration
    04:13
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Nina Stemme
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  6. 6 5 Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme, "Wesendonck Lieder": No. 5. Traume (Dreams) (version for voice and orchestra) 04:13
    Track
    6
    Title
    5 Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme, "Wesendonck Lieder": No. 5. Traume (Dreams) (version for voice and orchestra)
    Duration
    04:13
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Nina Stemme
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  7. 7 Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman): Overture (Final Version) 09:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman): Overture (Final Version)
    Duration
    09:41
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  8. 8 Siegfried Idyll 16:56
    Track
    8
    Title
    Siegfried Idyll
    Duration
    16:56
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  9. 9 Wesendonk Lieder: No. 5. Traume (version for solo violin and chamber orchestra) 03:57
    Track
    9
    Title
    Wesendonk Lieder: No. 5. Traume (version for solo violin and chamber orchestra)
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Performer
    Katarina Andreasson
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard
  10. 10 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), Act I: Prelude 08:24
    Track
    10
    Title
    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), Act I: Prelude
    Duration
    08:24
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Svenska Kammarorkestern
    Conductor
    Thomas Dausgaard