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Epic interpretations of orchestral music from Wagner’s music dramas, conducted by James Levine
In 1991 and 1995, James Levine recorded two albums for Deutsche Grammophon which have become known as ‘bleeding chunks’, in Ernest Newman’s phrase, from Wagner’s operas. Collected together for the first time on this Eloquence reissue, they form a comprehensive survey of overtures, preludes and excerpts, featuring many of Wagner’s best-known melodies and most thrilling orchestral climaxes.
There are the noble trumpet tunes to open his early operatic successes, ‘Rienzi’ and ‘Tannhäuser’ and the turbulent sea-scape to open ‘Der fliegende Holländer’. Both the serene first-act and jubilant third-act Preludes to ‘Lohengrin’ are included as well as highlights from the ‘Ring’ and the preludes to the operas he composed while on a seven-year working holiday from the ‘Ring’, ‘Die Meistersinger’ and ‘Tristan und Isolde’. The anthology concludes with some of the most quietly ecstatic music Wagner ever wrote, for the baptism of Kundry on the Good Friday Meadow in the third act of ‘Parsifal’.
Levine became music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York aged just 27, having studied as a teenager with Walter Levin, Rudolf Serkin and at the Juilliard School. Under his leadership, the Met orchestra was trained and transformed into a superlative Wagner orchestra: full-bodied, silky and holding power in reserve for Levine to harness at the points of intense crisis and triumph without words in the music dramas. On this reissue, they are prefaced by the 1991 recording made by Levine in Berlin of Wagner’s birthday gift to his wife Cosima, the ‘Siegfried Idyll’ which he based on themes from the ‘Ring’. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
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Siegfried Idyll (Richard Wagner)
Berliner Philharmoniker - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer - Christian Gansch, Recording Producer - Gregor Zielinsky, Balance Engineer - Andrew Wedman, Editor - Reinhard Lagemann, Editor
℗ 1992 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rienzi, WWV 49 (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - Steven Paul, Executive Producer - Wolfgang Stengel, Recording Producer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer
℗ 1993 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Tannhäuser, WWV 70 (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - Steven Paul, Executive Producer - Wolfgang Stengel, Recording Producer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer
℗ 1993 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96 (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - Steven Paul, Executive Producer - Wolfgang Stengel, Recording Producer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer
℗ 1993 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Lohengrin, WWV 75 / Act 3 (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - Cunningham Wood, Arranger - Steven Paul, Executive Producer - Wolfgang Stengel, Recording Producer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer
℗ 1993 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63 (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - Cunningham Wood, Arranger - Steven Paul, Executive Producer - Wolfgang Stengel, Recording Producer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer
℗ 1993 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Lohengrin (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - John Fisher, Executive Producer - Christian Gansch, Recording Producer - Jobst Eberhardt, Recording Engineer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer - Mark Buecker, Editor - Dagmar Birwe, Editor
℗ 1997 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Die Walküre, WWV 86B / Dritter Akt (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - John Fisher, Executive Producer - Christian Gansch, Recording Producer - Jobst Eberhardt, Recording Engineer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer - Mark Buecker, Editor - Dagmar Birwe, Editor
℗ 1997 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Siegfried / Zweiter Aufzug (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - John Fisher, Executive Producer - Christian Gansch, Recording Producer - Jobst Eberhardt, Recording Engineer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer - Mark Buecker, Editor - Dagmar Birwe, Editor
℗ 1997 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D - Concert version / Dritter Aufzug (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - John Fisher, Executive Producer - Christian Gansch, Recording Producer - Jobst Eberhardt, Recording Engineer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer - Mark Buecker, Editor - Dagmar Birwe, Editor
℗ 1997 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - John Fisher, Executive Producer - Christian Gansch, Recording Producer - Jobst Eberhardt, Recording Engineer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer - Mark Buecker, Editor - Dagmar Birwe, Editor
℗ 1997 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg / Act 3 (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - John Fisher, Executive Producer - Christian Gansch, Recording Producer - Jobst Eberhardt, Recording Engineer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer - Mark Buecker, Editor - Dagmar Birwe, Editor
℗ 1997 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Parsifal, WWV 111 / Act 3 (Richard Wagner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - James Levine, Conductor - Richard Wagner, Composer, Lyricist - John Fisher, Executive Producer - Christian Gansch, Recording Producer - Jobst Eberhardt, Recording Engineer - Wolfgang Mitlehner, Balance Engineer - Mark Buecker, Editor - Dagmar Birwe, Editor
℗ 1997 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
Epic interpretations of orchestral music from Wagner’s music dramas, conducted by James Levine
In 1991 and 1995, James Levine recorded two albums for Deutsche Grammophon which have become known as ‘bleeding chunks’, in Ernest Newman’s phrase, from Wagner’s operas. Collected together for the first time on this Eloquence reissue, they form a comprehensive survey of overtures, preludes and excerpts, featuring many of Wagner’s best-known melodies and most thrilling orchestral climaxes.
There are the noble trumpet tunes to open his early operatic successes, ‘Rienzi’ and ‘Tannhäuser’ and the turbulent sea-scape to open ‘Der fliegende Holländer’. Both the serene first-act and jubilant third-act Preludes to ‘Lohengrin’ are included as well as highlights from the ‘Ring’ and the preludes to the operas he composed while on a seven-year working holiday from the ‘Ring’, ‘Die Meistersinger’ and ‘Tristan und Isolde’. The anthology concludes with some of the most quietly ecstatic music Wagner ever wrote, for the baptism of Kundry on the Good Friday Meadow in the third act of ‘Parsifal’.
Levine became music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York aged just 27, having studied as a teenager with Walter Levin, Rudolf Serkin and at the Juilliard School. Under his leadership, the Met orchestra was trained and transformed into a superlative Wagner orchestra: full-bodied, silky and holding power in reserve for Levine to harness at the points of intense crisis and triumph without words in the music dramas. On this reissue, they are prefaced by the 1991 recording made by Levine in Berlin of Wagner’s birthday gift to his wife Cosima, the ‘Siegfried Idyll’ which he based on themes from the ‘Ring’. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
Details of original recording : Recordings : Grosser Saal, Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany, October 1991 (Siegfried Idyll); Manhattan Center, New York, USA, May 1991 (Rienzi, Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act I, Lohengrin: Act III, Der fliegende Holländer), May 1995 (Lohengrin: Act I, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act III, Parsifal)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 02:31:00
- Main artists: James Levine Berliner Philharmoniker Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon
- Area: Allemagne
- Genre: Classical Symphonic Music
- Period: Romantic Music
- Collection: Eloquence
© 2019 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. ℗ 2019 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
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