Wagner: Tannhäuser Rundfunkchor Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Marek Janowski

• Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883): Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I:
• 1 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: Overture - Der Venusberg 17:59
• 2 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: Geliebter, sag! Wo weilt dein Sinn? (Venus, Tannhäuser) 03:53
• 3 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: Dir töne Lob! (Tannhäuser, Venus) 05:27
• 4 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: Geliebter, komm! (Venus) 03:05
• 5 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: Stets soll nur dir mein Lied ertönen (Tannhäuser) 01:42
• 6 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: Zieh hin, Wahnsinniger! (Venus, Tannhäuser) 03:17
• 7 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: Frau Holda kam aus dem Berg hervor (Hirt) 05:22
• 8 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: Zu dir wall ich, mein Jesus Christ (Hirt, Tannhäuser) 03:22
• 9 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: Wer ist der dort in brünstigem Gebete? (Landgraf, Walther, Biterolf, Wolfram, Heinrich, Reinmar, Tannhäuser) 04:50
• 10 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act I: Als du in kühnem Sange uns bestrittest (Wolfram, Walther, Heinrich, Biterolf, Reinmar, Landgraf, Tannhäuser) 06:05
• Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II:
• 11 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Introduction - Dich, teure Halle (Elisabeth) 04:48
• 12 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Dort ist sie; nahe dich ihr ungestört! (Wolfram, Tannhäuser, Elisabeth) 06:57
• 13 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Den Gott der Liebe sollst du preisen! (Tannhäuser, Elisabeth, Wolfram) 03:40
• 14 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Dich treff ich hier in dieser Halle (Landgraf, Elisabeth) 03:50
• 15 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Freudig begrüßen wir die edle Halle 07:17
• 16 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Gar viel und schön ward hier in dieser Halle (Landgraf) 05:25
• 17 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Blick'ich umher in diesem edlen Kreise (Wolfram) 05:13
• 18 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Auch ich darf mich so glücklich nennen (Tannhäuser, Walther) 03:26
• 19 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: O Walter, der du also sangest (Tannhäuser, Biterolf, Landgraf, Wolfram) 04:32
• 20 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Dir, Göttin der Liebe, soll mein Lied ertönen (Tannhäuser, Walther, Heinrich, Wolfram, Biterolf, Reinmar, Landgraf, Edelknaben, Elisabeth) 01:36
• 21 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Was hör' ich? (Walther, Biterolf, Reinmar, Heinrich, Wolfram, Landgraf, Elisabeth) 02:07
• 22 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Der Unglücksel'ge (Elisabeth) 03:17
• 23 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Weh! Weh mir Unglücksel'gem! (Tannhäuser, Walther, Heinrich, Wolfram, Biterolf, Reinmar, Landgraf) 05:27
• 24 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Ein furchtbares Verbrechen ward begangen (Landgraf) 02:08
• 25 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act II: Versammelt sind aus meinen Landen (Landgraf, Walther, Heinrich, Wolfram, Biterolf, Reinmar) 05:23
• Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III:
• 26 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Introduction and Tannhäuser's pilgrimage 07:20
• 27 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Wohl wußt' ich hier sie im Gebet (Wolfram) 03:12
• 28 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Beglückt darf nun dich, o Heimat (Elisabeth) 04:30
• 29 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Allmächt'ge Jungfrau! Hör mein Flehen! (Elisabeth, Wolfram) 09:13
• 30 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Wie Todesahnung (Wolfram) 01:53
• 31 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: O, du mein holder Abendstern (Wolfram) 02:57
• 32 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Ich hörte Harfenschlag (Tannhäuser, Wolfram) 04:16
• 33 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Hör an! Inbrunst im Herzen (Tannhäuser) 03:13
• 34 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Nach Rom gelangt ich so zur heil'gen Stelle (Tannhäuser) 03:49
• 35 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Da sank ich in Vernichtung dumpf darnieder (Tannhäuser, Wolfram) 03:37
• 36 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Willkommen, ungetreuer Mann! (Venus, Tannhäuser, Wolfram) 03:50
• 37 Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Heil! Heil! Der Gnade Wunder Heil! (Walther, Heinrich, Wolfram, Biterolf, Reinmar, Landgraf) 02:29
• Total Runtime 02:50:27

Info for Wagner: Tannhäuser

This is the 6th installment of PentaTone’s successful Wagner Edition. It is the first time in the recording history that a label records all major Wagner opera’s with the same orchestra, choir and conductor. This makes the PentaTone Wagner Edition a great collector’s item. After this release follows Der Ring des Nibelungen. The 4 opera’s of the “The Ring” will all be released in the course of 2013, The WAGNER YEAR (Celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth in 1813)

All operas are recorded live in the Philharmonie in Berlin. The first five recordings were awarded with “Editor’s Choice” (Gramophone), Recording of the Month and Opera Choice of the Month (BBC Music Magazine), album of the week (Sunday Times).

Based on the reviews of the concert we expect high scores for the Tannhäuser recording as well.

“Janowski keeps the score, which has some longueurs, moving and builds up impressive climaxes in each act...Prudenskaya, though her enunciation is vague, is adequately sexy...Stemme sound[s] too heroic for the part...but she makes an impression. All told I would say that this is the best recording since that made in Bayreuth in 1962.” (BBC music magazine)

“Janowski's casting aims at getting an audible distinction between each voice...Both women have the measure of their words...while Robert Dean Smith - apparently a late substitute - continues to develop with a passionate assault on the fiendish title-role. Swift tempi and light orchestral/choral textures...complete a potentially exciting live performance...but the lack of understood drama behind Janowski's conducting gets in the way.” (Gramophone)

Albert Dohmen, bass (Landgraf Hermann)
Robert Dean Smith, tenor (Tannhäuser)
Nina Stemme, soprano (Elisabeth)
Marina Prudenskaya, mezzosoprano (Venus)
Peter Sonn, tenor (Walther von der Vogelweide)
Wilhelm Schwinghammer, bass (Biterolf)
Christian Gerhaher, baritone (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
Michael McCown, bass (Heinrich der Schreiber)
Martin Snell, bass (Reinmar von Zweter)
Bianca Reim, soprano (Ein junger Hirt)
v Sabine Puhlmann, soprano
Isabelle Voßkühler, soprano
Roksolana Chraniuk, contralto
Bettina Pieck, contralto (Edelknaben)
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Marek Janowski, conductor

Marek Janowski
first came to the Dresden Philharmonic as principal conductor from 2001 to 2003, during which time he already impressed with unusual and challenging programs. With the 2019/2020 concert season, he returned to the Dresden Philharmonic as principal conductor and artistic director.

Born in Warsaw in 1939, raised and educated in Germany, Marek Janowski looks back on an extensive and successful career both as an opera conductor and as artistic director of major concert orchestras. After years as assistant conductor and conductor in Aachen, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Hamburg, his artistic path led him to Freiburg i. Br. and Dortmund as GMD. Between the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, between Chicago, San Francisco, Hamburg, Vienna, Berlin and Paris, there is no opera house of world renown at which he has not been a regular guest since the late 1970s.

In concert, on which he has concentrated since the late 1990s, he continues the great German conducting tradition. From 2002 to 2016, he was principal conductor of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). Prior to that, and partly in parallel, he served as chief conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (2005-2012), the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (2000-2005), and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (1984-2000), among others, which he developed into France's top orchestra. He was also chief conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne for several years (1986-1990).

Marek Janowski is known worldwide as an outstanding conductor of Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner and Strauss, but also as an expert in the French repertoire. For more than 35 years, more than 50 recordings, most of which have won international awards - including several complete opera recordings and complete symphonic cycles - have contributed to making Marek Janowski's special abilities as a conductor known internationally.

A special focus for him is Richard Wagner's ten operas and music dramas, which he realized in concert with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Rundfunkchor Berlin and a phalanx of international soloists between 2010 and 2013 in the Berlin Philharmonie. All concerts were released on SACD by Pentatone in cooperation with Deutschlandradio. Marek Janowski also returned to an opera house once again for Wagner, conducting the "Ring" at the Bayreuth Festival in 2016 and 2017. He had already recorded this cycle for the disc with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden from 1980 to 1983. For the years 2014 to 2017, he was invited by the NHK Symphony (the most important orchestra in Japan) to conduct Wagner's tetralogy in concert in Tokyo.

Under his direction, several recordings have already been made with the Dresden Philharmonic, such as the one-act operas "Cavalleria rusticana" and "Il Tabarro" by Mascagni and Puccini, as well as Beethoven's "Fidelio", also recorded by the Pentatone label.

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