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The ”Edition Staatskapelle Dresden” launched in autumn 2005 is expanding in leaps and bounds. Volume 20, a breathtaking live concert recording of Berlioz's Requiem in Dresden's Kreuzkirche conducted by Sir Colin Davis, was launched at a Semperoper press discussion which took place in the opera house foyer on April 24, 2007.
Sir Colin Davis, who will be celebrating his eightieth birthday this year, was there in person and was presented with the very first CD. The CD samples necessary for such a press event had been delivered to the Dresden opera house only a few minutes earlier by overnight courier from the CD manufacturing plant.
Langbein’s lyricism and panache suit [the First Horn Concerto] down to the ground, while Thielemann’s conducting is admirably taut yet supple. It’s a superb performance…[in Metamorphosen] Thielemann... — More…
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Nézet-Séguin has got this huge, seemingly sprawling score better than anyone else I’ve heard…somehow lush Wagnerian ardour and a much older kind of mystical austerity don’t just cohabit, they... — More…
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Thielemann favours a monumental approach to Bruckner...The sublime slow movement is quite glorious...Any lover of this great work will want to add this issue to their collection. — More…
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica' (Live)
Staatskapelle Vol. 41
Dresden Staatskapelle, Myung-Whun Chung
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Thielemann’s interpretation, spacious and unaffected, has a commanding strength and inner purpose, and the playing of the Dresden Staatskapelle seems even more cultivated than on the [earlier]... — More…
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Edition Staatskapelle Dresden - Volume 21
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Giuseppe Sinopoli
'Glorious' and 'sublime' were among the epithets applied to the playing of Dresden's 'Royal Chapel' ensemble when Mahler's Fourth Symphony was first performed in the city in 1908. Both epithets... — More…
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…Davis's… his approach is warmly traditional, exploiting the resonance and natural expressiveness of this great orchestra. — More…
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The Bruckner Eighth… a valuable addition to the Haitink discography. …this is both vital and grand. The Dresden playing is superb, mellow and golden-toned, caught in an acoustic that has warmth... — More…
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This immensely grand, exciting account of the First Symphony… is a truly passionate reading, not only majestic at the biggest moments but much of the time swift-winged, living on its nerves.... — More…
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Edition Staatskapelle Dresden - Volume 33
Charlotte Margiono (soprano) & Jard van Nes (alto)
Chor der Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden, Sinfoniechor Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Bernard Haitink
the strings have a warmly cosseting quality, the winds are mellifluous, the brass powerful but cleanly focused...The voices are well balanced and Haitink's willingness to let the music breathe... — More…
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