Wagner: Lohengrin / Seiffert, Maggie, Polaski, Struckmann, Pape, Trekel, Barenboim
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Performer: Richard WagnerPerformer: Daniel Barenboim
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1998-11-17
Music Label: Teldec
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Act 1: Vorspiel
- Act 1: H?rt! Grafen, Edle, Freie von Brabant!
- Act 1: Dank, K?nig dir, da? du zu richten kamst!
- Act 1: Seht hin! Sie naht, die hart Beklagte!
- Act 1: Einsam in tr?ben Tagen
- Act 1: Mich irret nicht ihr tr?umerischer Mut
- Act 1: Wer hier im Gotteskampf zu streiten kam
- Act 1: Nun sei bedankt, mein lieber Schwan!
- Act 1: Zum Kampf f?r eine Magd zu stehn
- Act 1: Nun h?rt! Euch, Volk und Edlen, mach ich kund
- Act 1: Nun h?ret mich und achtet wohl
- Act 1: Durch Gottes Sieg ist jetzt dein Leben mein
- Act 2: Einleitung
- Act 2: Erhebe dich, Genossin meiner Schmach!
- Act 2: Du wilde Seherin
- Act 2: Euch L?ften, die mein Klagen
- Act 2: Elsa! ... Wer ruft?
- Act 2: Entweihte G?tter! Helft jetzt meiner Rache!
- Act 2: Wie kann ich solche Huld dir lohnen
- Act 2: In Fr?h'n versammelt uns der Ruf
- Act 2: Des K?nigs Wort und Will' tu ich euch kund
- Act 2: Gesegnet soll sie schreiten
- Act 2: Zur?ck, Elsa! Nicht l?nger will ich dulden
- Act 2: O K?nig! Trugbet?rte F?rsten! Haltet ein!
- Act 2: Welch ein Geheimnis mu? der Held bewahren?
- Act 2: Mein Held, entgegne k?hn dem Ungetreuen!
- Act 3: Vorspiel
- Act 3: Treulich gef?hrt ziehet dahin
- Act 3: Das s??e Lied verhallt
- Act 3: F?hl ich zu dir so s?? mein Herz entbrennen
- Act 3: Atmest du nicht mit mir die s??en D?fte?
- Act 3: H?chstes Vertrau'n hast du mir schon zu danken
- Act 3: Weh, nun ist all unser Gl?ck dahin!
- Act 3: Heil K?nig Heinrich!
- Act 3: Macht Platz dem Helden von Brabant!
- Act 3: In fernem Land, unnahbar euren Schritten
- Act 3: Mir schwankt der Boden! Welche Nacht!
- Act 3: Mein lieber Schwan!
Music reviews of Wagner: Lohengrin / Seiffert, Maggie, Polaski, Struckmann, Pape, Trekel, Barenboim
Music Review: Barenboim is no Leinsdorf!
Rating: 3 Stars
The only reason to get this recording mianly is for the restored full Grail narration in Act 3.
Barenboim brings alot of vitality and sympathy to the score and the singing is fine too, the quality of the sound is excellent, but the only problem for me is the choice for Elsa and Ortrud. They both have practically the same voice! You have to struggle with pain to figure who is who when they have all that dialogue in Act 2. Lohengrin also doesn't have the throatiness of the grail in his voice as Sandor Konya and Domingo have unfortunately...he could also be more emtionally expressive and involved. I also don't get a sense of the drama and dramatic throughline in this recording as much as in others such as Solti's, Kempe's or Leinsdorf's.
Now speaking of Leinsdorf...I will have to recommend Leinsdorf's recording from the 60's over Barenboim's recording due to the superior acting and quality of playing of the Boston orchestra. Leinsdorf is a much greater intepreter of Lohengrin and of Wagner in general, and the only other person to include the full grail narration in Act 3! Sandor Konya is really my ideal Lohengrin! I totally fell in love with Wagner's Lohengrin again and finally understood it musically and dramatically thanks to Leinsdorf and their whole cast and crew.
If your looking for a Great Lohengrin, get Leinsdorf's stupendously loving and energetic version or Solti's fantasticaly warm edition.
Description of Wagner: Lohengrin / Seiffert, Maggie, Polaski, Struckmann, Pape, Trekel, Barenboim
Lohengrin has a reputation as Wagner's most accessible, grandly romantic opera. It is arguably his saddest as well, reflecting an irreconcilable conflict between the utopian and the actual. Daniel Barenboim once again proves himself among the most astute of today's Wagnerians by tapping into this opera's uniqueness. He avoids the reductive temptation to present Lohengrin merely as a backward glance at the composer's musical roots or as a premonition of the mature music dramas to follow. In fact, there is room for both in the flowing, often brisk tempi favored by Barenboim and in his ripe attention to orchestral color (note how hypnotic are the sinister shadings evinced in the Act II prelude). This set moreover offers the complete, uncut score (including the rarely heard second part of the Act III Grail narration). Peter Seiffert is superb as the swan knight, with an evenly focused, expressive, powerful tenor and radiant high A's; he projects a core of irremediable loneliness that shows deep sympathy with Wagner's vision in this work. Emily Magee portrays a far less satisfactory Elsa, her phrasing too wooden and undifferentiated--and too close in timbre to her nemesis, Ortrud, given here a menacing, Lady Macbeth-like intensity by Deborah Polaski. Falk Struckmann is rock solid, if not as psychologically riveting, as her husband, Telramund; their scene together in Act II is one of the set's hair-raising highlights. Roman Trekel makes an unusually memorable impression as the stentorian herald, and there's a hint of King Marke in Rene Pape's rather wise but perplexed Heinrich. Aside from some passages of surprising listlessness (notably the Act III prelude), the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra plays with warmth and dramatic urgency. Given the cast shortcomings, this version does not displace Kempe's superlative account, but it makes a significant addition to the catalog. --Thomas MayWagner, Richard CDs
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