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Richard Wagner: Die Walküre Akt 1

Daniel Barenboim, Plácido Domingo, Deborah Polaski, Staatskapelle Berlin, John Tomlinson Verlag: Teldec Jahr: 1993 www.amazon.de This live concert performance from 1993 conveys both the urgency and compassion of the score with unremitting immediacy. As with his Tristan and Lohengrin, Daniel Barenboim once again gives proof that he has matured into a formidable Wagnerian, from the taut tension of… Richard Wagner: Die Walküre Akt 1 weiterlesen
Year : 1993
Daniel Barenboim, Plácido Domingo, Deborah Polaski, Staatskapelle Berlin, John Tomlinson
Verlag:
Teldec
Jahr:
1993

This live concert performance from 1993 conveys both the urgency and compassion of the score with unremitting immediacy. As with his Tristan and Lohengrin, Daniel Barenboim once again gives proof that he has matured into a formidable Wagnerian, from the taut tension of the stormy prelude and the quasi-chamber-music dimensions of the first scene to the brilliantly colored apexes of the love music. Placido Domingo is captured here in top form, portraying a convincingly youthful and passionate Siegmund. Although he throws away an occasional phrase, the stamina of his voice is downright thrilling, particularly in his desperate, sustained call to “Wälse.” Domingo’s multifaceted approach moreover conveys the hero’s fear and vulnerability as well as the tenderly phrased lyrical warmth of “Winterstürme.” Deborah Polaski matches her lover’s large sound with heart-racing charisma; hers is less a beaten-down, introspective Sieglinde than a woman determined to escape an awful fate through the power of love. John Tomlinson’s resounding bass etches an imposing and viscerally frightening Hunding. The engineering is excellent, with brooding, dark colors from the Staatskapelle’s lower strings and woodwinds as well as brightly ringing brass. This may be all the inducement you need to discover the entire Ring–Thomas May

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