Label: Exton
Format: SACD
Barcode: 4526977001988
Catalog number: OVCL 198
Releasedate: 28-01-11
Format: SACD
Barcode: 4526977001988
Releasedate: 28-01-11
This disc was recorded just before Edo de Waart left the post of chief conductor after the successful period of his tenure for fifteen years. Following the Wagner orchestral works volume one (OVCL-00153), it features rather early works by the composer as well as standard numbers such as Walkurenritt and Siegfried Idyll, and also shows the orchestra performance at the height. This disc has also enjoyed splendid reputation for its audio quality.
- Recorded just before Edo de Waart left the post of chief conductor after the successful period of his tenure for fifteen years
- Very high audio quality!
- According to Harrison Parrott Artists Management Edo De Waart, as an exceptional orchestral trainer has catapulted the international reputations of some of the best known orchestras in the world
- He has most defenitely put his 'orchestral-building' mark on the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Edo de Waart has signed a six year contract to become Chief Conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic (deFilharmonie) from the 2012/13 season onwards
Richard Wagner was a pioneer of the modern art of conducting, and conducted many concerts as a way of raising funds for his operatic projects (and simply to help pay off his debts). But, although at different times in his career he planned series of programmatic concert overtures and one-movement symphonies, he actually wrote remarkably little concert music. This disc contains the two most substantial concert works of his maturity, the Faust Overture and the Siegfried Idyll – the latter, however, written not for public performance but for a private family occasion (and musically related to the music-drama Siegfried). These works are complemented by two of Wagner’s early operatic overtures, and by two excerpts from his later music-dramas: so-called “bleeding chunks” of the kind which he included only reluctantly in his concert programmes, but which for many years were a staple part of the orchestral repertoire. (From the CD linernote by Anthony Burton © 2010)