Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Edo de Waart
Release Date: 01 November 2010
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 608917233827
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Over the past 20 years composer and arranger Henk de Vlieger has made orchestral versions of the operas of Richard Wagner at the request of distinguished Dutch conductor Edo de Waart. This 3-CD set brings together his arrangements of the music from the four operas that make up the cycle known as "The Ring", "Tristan and Isolde", and "Parsifal". These recordings feature de Waart himself conducting the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
Between 1988 and 1991, Edo de Waart and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra gave a series of concert performances of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . It was so successful that De Waart wanted to add symphonic selections from The Ring to the repertoire for a concert tour of Germany in February 1992. When it appeared that there was no arrangement available, Henk de Vlieger, composer and arranger - and percussionist with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra - decided to compile an entirely new orchestral suite, "Der Ring - an orchestral adventure". Two years later, again after a concert performance, he wrote "Parsifal - an orchestral quest". Its success prompted a plan to issue a 3-CD set, and for this project, de Vlieger completed "Tristan und Isolde - an orchestral passion".
Personnel: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart (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
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Edo de Waart
