The Flying Dutchman Archive
WAGNER: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) – Terje Stensvold (Der Holländer)/ Kwangchul Youn (Daland)/ Anja Kampe (Senta)/ Royal Concertgebouw Orch./ Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks/ WDR Rundfunkchor Köln/ NDR Chor/ Andris Nelsons – RCO Live (2 CDs)
It’s a shame this magnificent orchestra’s first Wagner opera recording wasn’t captured in surround sound.
WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Blu-ray (2015)
The modernist liberties with the set design are really strange.
“Wagner Idyll” = Isolde’s Liebestode from “Tristan und Isolde,”; Fantasy in F-sharp Minor; Spinnerlied from “The Flying Dutchman,”; Siegfried Idyll – Vestard Shimkus, piano – Ars Produktion LISZT: Funérailles; Études d’exécution transcendante: No. 10. Allegro agitato molto; No. 11. “Harmonies du soir”; 3 Sonetti del Petrarcha; RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre – Yevgeny Sudbin, piano – BIS
Two recitals in the grand tradition of the nineteenth-century piano virtuoso.
Audio News for July 27, 2012
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WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman – Albert Dohmen, bass-baritone (Der Holländer)/ Matti Salminen, bass (Daland)/ Rundfunkchor Berlin/ Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin/ Marek Janowski – PentaTone (2 discs)
This is the first in a series of ten Wagner operas to be issued on the Pentatone label; it’s a very good start.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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