FLEMING, RENEE

Bruckners zevende, met in het beroemde adagio een eerbetoon aan de net overleden Richard Wagner, is in uitstekende handen van de Staatskapelle Dresden onder leiding van Christian Thielemann – ook een uitstekend Wagner-dirigent. Het is echter vooral de rest van het programma dat deze dvd tot een aanrader maakt. In vijf liederen van Hugo Wolf en Befreit van Richard Strauss stijgen sopraan Renée Fleming en het orkest tot grote hoogten. Prachtig!


Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 & Wolf: Lieder
Recorded live at Semperoper Dresden, September 2012

Bruckner:
Symphony No. 7 in E Major
Strauss, R:
Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Wolf, H:
Verborgenheit (No. 12 from Mörike-Lieder)
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Er ist's (No. 6 from Mörike-Lieder)
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Elfenlied (No. 16 from Mörike-Lieder)
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Anakreons Grab (No. 29 from Goethe-Lieder)
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Mignon II 'Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt' (No. 6 from Goethe-Lieder)
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann

The Dresden Staatskapelle has a living Bruckner tradition, stretching back a century and more, which is lovingly curated by its new music director, Christian Thielemann, who is himself a powerful advocate for the composer’s symphonies as the pinnacle of the Austro-German tradition; and in particular for the Wagnerian resonances of the Seventh, whose Adagio was shaped by news of Wagner’s death in Venice. Hugo Wolf was also deeply affected by that news; his songs, like Bruckner’s symphonies, can be seen as oblique reflections on the influence of Wagner, especially when sung, as they are here by Renée Fleming, with the utmost delicacy and intimacy.

Christian Thielemann’s first concert as Principal Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden.

Both Thielemann and Fleming are renowned interpreters of Romantic repertoire.

Bruckner’s 7th Symphony premiered in 1884 to universal acclaim & established him as a serious composer of symphonic music, Wolf’s Songs were composed four years later.

Wolf was a great admirer of Bruckner and both idolized Wagner, whose influence is felt in the 7th Symphony.

Running time: 106 minutes
Subtitles N/A
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS