| Label: SIGNUM RECORDS Catalog: SIGCD173 Format: SACD HYBRID Wholenote Discoveries - December 2009
A new performance of, Schoenberg’s Tristanesque narrative, is not so rare these days, but still of interest. Earlier this year Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted it with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall. Among the soloists is soprano Soile Isokoski singing Tove. Salonen appears to be less Romantic than, say Stokowski or Ferencsik, but achieves some exquisite balances between soloists and orchestra in the third part. The speaker in “Herr Gänsefuss...” is Barbara Sukowa who is also in Abbado’s version (DG) in the role usually spoken by a male voice. The recording, issued on, 2 CD/SACDs is lucid and dynamic. Bruce Surtees Price: $37.98 |