Offer, Wagner: Das Rheingold

Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Christian Elsner (Loge), Iris Vermillion (Fricka), Günther Groissböck (Fasolt), Timo Riihonen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Ricarda Merberth (Freia), Andreas Conrad (Mime), Maria Radner (Erda), Julia Borchert (Woglinde), Katharina Kammerloher (Wellgunde), Kismara...

This is superbly recorded, mainly wonderfully played , interestingly conducted and reasonably well sung...dramatically gripping as only a well-conducted Rheingold can be...The best reason for... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, More…

Release Date: 13th May 2013
Catalogue No: PTC5186406
Label: Pentatone
Series: Marek Janowski Wagner Opera Cycle
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

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Wagner: Das Rheingold

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Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marek Janowski
Christian Elsner (tenor), Katharina Kammerloher (mezzo-soprano), Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano), Günther Groissböck (bass), Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Julia Borchert (soprano), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (baritone), Kismara Pessatti (contralto), Kor-Jan Dusseljee (tenor), Andreas Conrad (tenor), Tomasz Konieczny (baritone), Maria Radner (alto), Antonio Yang (baritone), Timo Riihonen (bass)
Recorded: 22 November 2012
Recording Venue: Berlin Philharmonie

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Following on from their recent success at this year’s 2013 BBC Music Magazine Awards where they won the Award for Technical Excellence for their recording of Parsifal, PentaTone is delighted to bring you the next installment, Das Rheingold.

This is the 7th release in PentaTone’s successful Wagner Edition and the 1st one in the Wagner Year. Das Rheingold is the first release of the cycle: Der Ring des Nibelungen. The other 3 “Ring recordings” will follow in the course of 2013.

Continuing with their critically acclaimed Wagner series, the attached images show previous releases which have received unprecedented critical acclaim.

The recordings have various been awarded The Sunday Times CD of the Week, The Opera Choice of the month in BBC Music Magazine, the Recording of the month also in BBC Music Magazine and several Gramophone Editor’s Choices.

PentaTone’s Wagner Edition is an unprecedented project and we aim at supporting it with a lot of attention in the media throughout the year. In the Wagner year there will be a lot of attention for Wagner through articles in the media and performances of his opera’s. We expect therefore the interest for the PentaTone Edition (especially as a collector’s item) to increase substantially.

This next release will be supported by advertising in various magazines.

Artists

Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Christian Elsner (Loge), Iris Vermillion (Fricka), Günther Groissböck (Fasolt), Timo Riihonen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Ricarda Merberth (Freia), Andreas Conrad (Mime), Maria Radner (Erda), Julia Borchert (Woglinde), Katharina Kammerloher (Wellgunde), Kismara Pessatti (Flosshilde)

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski

Reviews

August 2013

This is superbly recorded, mainly wonderfully played , interestingly conducted and reasonably well sung...dramatically gripping as only a well-conducted Rheingold can be...The best reason for getting this set is the Loge of Christian Elsner...Elsner does not miss a trick in catching all the elements of this complex character, but he never sings less than beautifully.

September 2013

the real secret ingredient here is the conductor himself...What was a little too calm and remote in the earlier Dresden recording now has real cojones...This is both a great start to Janowski's new Ring cycle and a competitive Rheingold in its own right.

July/August 2013

it's the RSOB's playing that steps effortlessly into the limelight. This is a Ring conceived, deliberately, as a musical rather than a theatrical journey...[Schmeckenberger's is] a characterization of awesome dramatic power...After Schmeckenberger, another star of the set is the lyrical, immaculately articulated Loge of Christian Elsner

11th July 2013

this Rheingold finds [Janowski] at his best. He uses his preference for fast speeds to his advantage to make the drama buzz along from one exciting episode to another...[the orchestra] take every opportunity to reveal Wagner’s score in all its astounding, delectable colour, as if holding it up to the light for fresh examination.

2nd June 2013

he fields several outstanding singers from the rising Wagnerian generation ...Above all, this is Janowski’s triumph. His decision to focus on the music at the expense of theatrical ideas has been criticised, but he is vindicated by the gripping, dramatic playing here.

30th May 2013

Janowski's dramatic instincts and his ability to obtain orchestral playing of great intensity and presence are as keenly honed as ever – there are some thrilling interludes in this Rheingold...the classiest [vocal] performances come from Günther Groissböck's Fasolt and Iris Vermillion's Fricka.