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Wagner - Meistersinger: an orchestral tribute | Challenge Classics CC72326

Wagner - Meistersinger: an orchestral tribute

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Label: Challenge Classics

Cat No: CC72326

Barcode: 0608917232622

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st November 2010

Contents

Artists

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductors

Edo de Waart
Otto Tausk

Works

Wagner, Richard

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (highlights)

Artists

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductors

Edo de Waart
Otto Tausk

About

Having already made orchestral arrangements of Wagner’s operas “The Ring”, “Parsifal” and “Tristan and Isolde” (CC72338), Henk de Vlieger added a fourth, “Die Meistersingers von Nürnberg”. The ‘Orchestral Tribute’ is made up of eleven fragments that form a suite and flow into each other without interruption. This recording is performed by Edo de Waart and the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra. The disc also features de Vlieger’s arrangement of two of Wagner’s piano pieces “Deux Entreactes Tragiques” conducted by Otto Tausk.

“Die Meistersinger” holds a special position among Richard Wagner’s music dramas. It is his only ‘comic’ opera, and its subject, moreover, is not based on a myth or saga. The characters are mere common mortals and at least one of them, Hans Sachs, actually existed. Die Meistersinger also differs musically from Wagner’s preceding operas in that it represents a return to a simpler, predominately diatonic musical idiom.

Edo de Waart won the Dimitri Mitropoulos Conducting Competition in New York in 1964, and was made assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic. He then became assistant conductor to Bernard Haitink of the Concertgebouw Orchestra and, in 1967, conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He also served as music director in Rotterdam from 1973 to 1979. From 1989 to 2005 he was Chief Conductor of Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 2004.

Contents:
Meistersinger – an orchestral tribute (arr. Henk de Vlieger)
Conducted by Edo de Waart
1. Vorspiel
2. Versammlung der Meistersinger
3. Gesang der Lehrbuben
4. Sachsens Monolog
5. Vorspiel lll
6. Taufspruch
7. Züge der Zünfte
8. Tanz der Lehrbuben
9. Aufzug der Meistersinger
10. Walthers Preislied
11. Schlussgesang

Deux entreactes tragiques (orch. Henk de Vlieger)
Conducted by Otto Tausk
12. Entreacte tragique No.1 – Allegro
13. Entreacte tragique No.2 – Allegro con brio

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