Neeme Järvi conducts Wagner Overtures & Preludes - Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Chandos CHSA 5126 (2013)
SACD rip via PS3 to iso (4.19GB) | Mch & 2ch Hybrid | DR14 | Classical


"... Järvi is a master of this repertoire & he continually conjures splendid playing from his Scottish orchestra ... the sound is of the highest Chandos quality to match the fine playing ..."
- Gramophone

Chandos says:
On this album we bring together some of the highlights from Neeme Järvi’s 5-volume Wagner series with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. As an added bonus, we have included the Overture to Der fliegende Holländer, a piece not before released.

Among Wagner’s most revolutionary scores is the tragic-romantic opera Tristan und Isolde. The key themes of anticipation, longing, rapture, separation, hope, death, & transfiguration are suggested already in the famous Prelude to the opera, recorded here.

The Overture to Rienzi, Wagner’s 3rd completed opera (1838 – 40), incorporates the melody of Rienzi’s prayer at the start of Act V, which since became the opera’s best-known aria, & ends with a dazzling military march. Die Feen was the composer’s 1st great romantic, although less well-known, opera. The overall style of the work, based on La donna serpente by Carlo Gozzi, owes its essentials to Beethoven, Marschner, & Weber.

Wagner based Das Liebesverbot on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. It is perhaps the most Mediterranean-sounding of his operas, something especially apparent in the brimming vitality of the Overture with its sparkling contributions of castanets, triangle, & tambourine. 


Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

    Tracks:

1. Die Feen: Overture 10:48
2. Christoph Columbus: Overture 8:02
3. Das Liebesverbot: Overture 8:10
4. Rienzi: Overture 11:16
5. A Faust Overture, Op. 59 11:03
6. Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): Overture 11:00	
7. Lohengrin, Act III: Prelude 3:04	
8. Tristan und Isolde, Act I: Prelude 6:43
9. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), Act I: Prelude 8:56	

    Time: 80:00

    Musicians:

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor

Recorded August 2009, February 2010, August 2010, & March 2011 at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, Scotland.
24bit/96kHz 5ch recording. I suggest going to HDTracks or prostudiosmasters for the original 24/96 if 2ch is good enough for you.
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