Marek Janowski Wagner Opera Cycle
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
RecommendedAlbert Dohmen (Der Holländer), Ricarda Merbeth (Senta), Matti Salminen (Daland), Robert Dean Smith (Erik), Silvia Hablowetz (Mary), Steve Davislim (Steuermann)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
Janowski's conducting is crisp and fleet-footed, shaping the music naturally and fluently...[Dohmen] is a warm anti-hero, but too soft-grained to sound demonically desperate. Matti Salminen's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th September 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Albert Dohmen (Hans Sachs), Robert Dean Smith (Walther), Edith Haller (Eva), Dietrich Henschel (Beckmesser), Peter Sonn (David), Michelle Breedt (Magdalene), Georg Zeppenfeld (Pogner)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
[a good Meistersinger] should show teamwork among the soloists and a good balance between the conversational style of much of the singing and the grandeur of the orchestral accompaniment. On... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Opera Choice
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedEvgeny Nikitin (Amfortas), Christian Elsner (Parsifal), Franz-Josef Selig (Gurnemanz), Michelle DeYoung (Kundry/Stimme aus der Hohe), Dimitry Ivaschenko (Titurel), Eike Wilm Schulte (Klingsor)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
It has spontaneity of something which has sunk so deeply into the performers' minds and souls that they can throw caution to the wind and still be accurate...Elsner is a wonderfully sensitive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th March 2012
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Award for Technical Excellence
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Opera, August 2012, Recording of the Month
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Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedTomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer/Wotan), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde), Anna Larsson (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Christian Elsner (Mime), Sophie Klußmann (Stimme eines Waldvogels)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Annette Dasch (Elsa), Susanne Resmark (Ortrud), Gerd Grochowski (Friedrich von Telramund), Markus Brück (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Günther Groissböck (Heinrich der Vogler)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
Janowski has matured into the most reliably impressive Wagner conductor of our time...[Vogt] has a lovely voice, though it occasionally sounds thin; but he is expressive, intelligent and convincing.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Overtures, Preludes and Orchestral Excerpts
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Edith Haller (Gutrune), Markus Bruck (Gunther), Marina Prudenskaja (Waltraute), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Susanne Resmark (Erste Norn), Christa Mayer (Zweite Norn), Jacquelyn Wagner (Dritte Norn), Julia Borchert (Woglinde),...
there is much to enjoy and a lot to write home about...The sound of the orchestra really gleams throughout. The brass sound fantastic at the big climaxes...[Salminen's] acting leaps out of the... — More…
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
Robert Dean Smith (Tannhäuser), Nina Stemme (Elisabeth), Marina Prudenskaya (Venus), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Peter Sonn (Walther von der Vogelweide), Albert Dohmen (Landgraf Hermann von Thüringen)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
Janowski keeps the score, which has some longueurs, moving and builds up impressive climaxes in each act...Prudenskaya, though her enunciation is vague, is adequately sexy...Stemme sound[s]... — More…
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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),...
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... — More…
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Stephen Gould (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Kwangchul Youn (König Marke), Johan Reuter (Kurwenal), Michelle Breedt (Brangäne), Simon Pauly (Melot), Clemens Bieber (Ein Hirte/A shepherd), Arttu Kataja (Ein Steuermann/A steersman) & Timothy Fallon (Ein junger Seemann/A young sailor)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester...
Janowski demands heroic efforts in speed and intensity. He favours a swift performance, and in this live Tristan that means more excitement than emotion. Soprano Nina Stemme is the ranking Isolde... — More…
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