Release Date: 01 November 2010
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917232622
Genres: Classical
Description
Having already made orchestral arrangements of Wagner's operas from "The Ring", "Parsifal", and "Tristan and Isolde" Henk de Vlieger added a fourth, "Die Meistersingers von Nürnberg". The 'Orchestral Tribute' is made up of eleven fragments that form a suite and flow into each other without interruption. This recording is performed by de Waart and the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra. The disc also features de Vlieger's arrangement of two of Wagner's piano pieces "Deux Entreactes Tragiques" conducted by Otto Tausk.
"Die Meistersinger" holds a special position among Richard Wagner's music dramas. It is his only 'comic' opera, and its subject, moreover, is not based on a myth or saga. The characters are mere common mortals and at least one of them, Hans Sachs, actually existed. Die Meistersinger also differs musically from Wagner's preceding operas, in that it represents a return to a simpler, predominately diatonic musical idiom.
Edo de Waart won the Dimitri Mitropoulos Conducting Competition in New York in 1964, and was made assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic. He then became assistant conductor to Bernard Haitink of the Concertgebouw Orchestra and in 1967 conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He also served as music director in Rotterdam from 1973 to 1979. From 1989 to 2005 he was Chief Conductor of Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 2004.
Personnel: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor), Otto Tausk (conductor)
Tracklisting
Narratio Quartet
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
La Sfera Armoniosa, Oscar Verhaar, Mike Fentross
Simona Marchesi, Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi
Ben Kim, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
Richard Casey, Annabelle Lawson, Joanna Lam, Peter Lawson, Stephen Plews, Jean Hasse, David Owen Norris, John McCabe, Aleksander Szram
Duncan Honeybourne, Helen Cawthorne
Maria Callas
Mayke Rademakers
Katharina Konradi, Catriona Morison, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Lisa Illean, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, GBSR Duo, Juliet Fraser, Explore Ensemble
Narratio Quartet
