Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Marek Janowski & Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

• Act 1
• 1Act I - Prelude08:32
• 2Act I - Da zu dir der Heiland kam (Chorus)03:20
• 3Act I - Verweilt! Ein Wort! (Walther, Eva, Magdalene, David)08:46
• 4Act I - David, was stehst? (Apprentices, David, Walther)02:00
• 5Act I - Mein Herr! der Singer Meister-Schlag (David, Walther)02:58
• 6Act I - Der Meister Ton' und Weisen (David, Walther, Apprentices)10:18
• 7Act I - Seid meiner Treue wohl versehen (Pogner, Beckmesser, Walther, Sachs, Vogelsang, Nachtigall)04:21
• 8Act I - Zu einer Freiung und Zunftberatung (Kothner, Pogner, Vogelsang, Ortel, Zorn, Nachtigall, Moser, Apprentices, David, Eisslinger, Foltz, Schwarz)02:07
• 9Act I - Nicht doch, ihr Meister (Pogner, Kothner, Apprentices, Sachs, Beckmesser)06:53
• 10Act I - Vielleicht schon ginget ihr zu weit (Sachs, Kothner, Beckmesser, Vogelgesang, Nachtigall, Pogner)05:14
• 11Act I - Dacht' ich mir's doch! (Beckmesser, Kothner, Pogner, Nachtigall, Sachs)02:22
• 12Act I - Am stillen Herd in Winterszeit (Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, Kothner, Vogelsang, Nachtigall)05:02
• 13Act I - Nun, Meister, wenn's gefallt (Kothner, Walther, Beckmesser)02:22
• 14Act I - Was euch zum Liede Richt' und Schnur (Kothner, Walther, Beckmesser)02:38
• 15Act I - Fur dich, Geliebte, sei's getan – Fanget an! (Walther, Kothner, Beckmesser, Pogner, Ortel, Foltz, Moser, Nachtigall, Vogelsang, Zorn)05:38
• 16Act I - Halt, Meister! Nicht so geeilt! (Sachs, Beckmesser, Nachtigall, Kothner, Pogner, Apprentices)07:21
• Act 2
• 17Act II Scene 1 - Johannistag! Johannistag! (Apprentices, David, Magdalene, Sachs)03:45
• 18Act II - Lass seh'n, ob Meister Sachs zu Haus? (Pogner, Eva, Magdalene, Sachs, David)06:23
• 19Act II - Was duftet doch der Flieder (Sachs)06:06
• 20Act II - Gut'n Abend, Meister! (Eva, Sachs, Magdalene)08:10
• 21Act II - Das dacht' ich wohl! (Sachs, Magdalene, Eva, Pogner)02:04
• 22Act II - Da ist er! (Eva, Magdalene, Walther)03:49
• 23Act II - Geliebter, spare den Zorn (Eva, Magdalene, Walther, Night-watchman)01:58
• 24Act II - Üble Dinge, die ich da merk (Sachs, Walther, Eva, Night-watchman)02:37
• 25Act II - Jerum! Jerum! (Sachs, Beckmesser, Walther, Eva)12:30
• 26Act II - Den Tag seh' ich erscheinen (Beckmesser, Sachs)05:31
• 27Act II - Mit den Schuhen ward ich fertig schier (Sachs, Beckmesser, David, Chorus, Magdalene, Apprentices, Pogner, Walther, Night-watchman)05:40
• Act 3
• 28Act III - Prelude06:00
• 29Act III - Gleich, Meister! Hier! (David, Sachs)07:03
• 30Act III - Wahn! Wahn! Uberall Wahn! (Sachs)07:14
• 31Act III - Gruss' Gott, mein Junker! (Sachs, Walther)09:04
• 32Act III - Morgenlich leuchtend in rosigem Schein (Walther, Sachs)10:17
• 33Act III - Ein Werbelied! (Beckmesser, Sachs)06:31
• 34Act III - Das Gedicht? Hier liess ich's (Sachs, Beckmesser)07:17
• 35Act III - Sieh' Ev'chen! Dacht' ich doch, wo sie blieb'! (Sachs, Eva, Walther)05:58
• 36Act III - Hat man mit dem Schuhwerk nicht seine Not! (Sachs, Eva)04:11
• 37Act III - Mein Kind, von Tristan und Isolde (Sachs)03:46
• 38Act III - Die selige Morgentraum - Deutweise (Sachs)01:08
• 39Act III - Selig, wie die Sonne (Eva, Magdalene, Walther, David, Sachs)04:39
• 40Act III- Sankt Crispin, lobet ihn! (Chorus, Apprentices)05:01
• 41Act III - Ihr tanzt? Was werden die Meister sagen? (David, Apprentices, Chorus)05:43
• 42Act III - Wacht auf! Es nahet gen den Tag (Chorus)02:07
• 43Act III - Euch macht ihr's leicht (Sachs, Pogner, Beckmesser, Kothner, Chorus, Apprentices)07:03
• 44Act III - Morgen ich leuchte in rosigem Schein (Beckmesser, Chorus, Kothner, Nachtigall, Vogelsang, Ortel, Foltz, Sachs, Apprentices)08:12
• 45Act III - Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein (Walther, Chorus, Sachs, Pogner, Eva)07:34
• 46Act III - Verachtet mir die Meister nicht (Sachs, Chorus)03:57
• 47Act III - Ehrt eure deutschen Meister (Chorus)01:57
• Total Runtime04:13:07

Info for Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

This is second release in the ambitious project of conductor Marek Janowski and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra to perform and record all of Wagner's operas together. And judging by the exceptionally high standard of this Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, when finished it will be a cycle to cherish.

'Despite his bizarre fears about stage directors (see Gramophone, A/11), Marek Janowski is no slouch when it comes to imparting decisive character and atmosphere to his opera performances. Starting with a barely more than eight-minute overture, this second step in the 72-year-old Polish maestro’s bicentennial Berlin concert cycle of mature Wagner is a swift, light, comic reading of the score, more Lortzing than Tristan. It has much of the narrative thrust of Rudolf Kempe’s old Berlin EMI set and, while we’re handing out similes, it also sounds as if Janowski, like Reginald Goodall, has spent valuable sectional time with his orchestral as well as his vocal soloists. The delicate cello in the introduction to ‘Am stillen Herd’ or the colour and point of the wind-playing in the little Act 3 intermezzo where Beckmesser comes spying in Sachs’s workshop are classy and delightful.

On this particular June evening Albert Dohmen sounded at home across the whole spectrum of Sachs’s poetry, wistfulness and wit. He and Janowski avoid making too much black-dog mood in the ‘Wahn’ scene or excessive anger and self-pity over Eva’s attraction to Walther. Meanwhile, Dietrich Henschel essays a Beckmesser who can be all of pompous, weird, a credible vocalist in both serenade and prize song to Eva – and funny. (His attempt on the prize song has a crazy credibility not a million miles away from Bayreuth’s recent take on the number as anarchic performance art.) Sonn is imaginative in David’s tricky cataloguing of all the tones, Zeppenfeld a Pogner of real passion and concern. Magdalene, the other masters and the chorus – challenged by (but more than coping with) Janowski’s pace and bounce on the Festwiese – are strong contributors.

So far, so fine. It must be said, however, that the lovers were not quite so exciting at the single evening’s performance on which this set is based. Robert Dean Smith, Bayreuth’s successful current Tristan, doesn’t essay a wide enough range of colour in the comparatively higher reaches of Walther’s mood-swings – although he and Janowski manage a nice private rehearsal feeling for the dictation of the dream prize song to Sachs. Edith Haller, an ideal Eva on paper, comes across as shy and innig, a cosy father’s daughter but insufficiently heroic in the ‘O Sachs! Mein Freund!’ outburst.

Janowski’s achievement is to have recreated a genuine comic feel for the piece. Bayreuth’s old, almost complete Furtwängler or more recent Barenboim are darker, more Tristan-like; Kempe, Cluytens, the Dresden Karajan and (slow speeds and English language notwithstanding) Goodall lighter and more comic. Toscanini in 1937 offers the most heaven of all but even the most recent transfer has not yet made this Selenophone original a hi-fi experience.' (Mike Ashman, Gramophone) br>
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Chor: Eberhard Friedrich
Marek Janowski, conductor

Albert Dohmen (Hans Sachs)
Georg Zeppenfeld (Veit Pogner)
Michael Smallwood (Kunz Vogelgesang)
Sebastian Noack (Konrad Nachtigal)
Dietrich Henschel (Sixtus Beckmesser)
Tuomas Pursio (Fritz Kothner)
Jörg Schörner (Balthasar Zorn)
Thomas Ebenstein (Ulrich Eißlinger)
Thorsten Scharnke (Augustin Moser)
Tobias Berndt (Hermann Ortel)
Hans-Peter Scheidegger (Hans Schwarz)
Hyung-Wook Lee (Hans Foltz)
Robert Dean Smith (Walther von Stolzing)
Peter Sonn (David)
Edith Haller (Eva)
Michelle Breedt (Magdalene)
Matti Salminen (Ein Nachtwächter)

Recorded live at Philharmonie, Berlin, 3 June 2011

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