Matti Salminen – Wagner : Der fliegende Hollander (Le Vaisseau fantôme) (2011/2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Matti Salminen – Wagner : Der fliegende Hollander (Le Vaisseau fantôme) (2011/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:06:26 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Janowski’s conducting is crisp and fleet-footed, shaping the music naturally and fluently…[Dohmen] is a warm anti-hero, but too soft-grained to sound demonically desperate. Matti Salminen’s… — BBC Music Magazine

In preparation for the Wagner bicentennial in 2013, Marek Janowski and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester and Rundfunkchor Berlin began an ambitious project of recording the composer’s ten major operas for Pentatone with Der fliegende Holländer in 2010. The recording’s strongest points are the stellar performances by the orchestra and chorus; there’s real fire and passion in their playing and singing. This is not Wagner’s most dramatically coherent opera, but Janowski manages to keep the momentum going and the big moments are genuinely stirring. The leads are mostly very fine but not consistently memorable; the general lack of real distinction keeps this from being a contender as a top-ranked recording of the opera. Daland has been a signature role for Matti Salminen, who delivers the strongest performance among the leads; his characterization is sharply and vividly realized, and while his noble voice shows its age, it’s appropriate for the role. As the Dutchman, Albert Dohmen has a vocal quality not sufficiently differentiated from Salminen’s, and although his singing is never less than adequate, he fails to convey the character’s mythic dimensions. Ricarda Merbeth as Senta has a voice that’s large enough for the part but that’s somewhat hard and inflexible, and that fails to generate much sympathy for her character. Robert Dean Smith usually sounds strained as Erik, except in his relatively rare quiet passages. The singer who makes the strongest and most lingering impression is Steve Davislim in the small role of the Steersman. The sound is clean, full, and nicely nuanced.

Tracklist:
1-1. Matti Salminen – Ouverture (10:31)
1-2. Matti Salminen – Introduction – Hojohe! Hallojo! Hojoha! Ho! (Chorus) (05:06)
1-3. Matti Salminen – Mit Gewitter und Sturm aus fernem Meer (Steuermann) (04:28)
1-4. Matti Salminen – Aria. Die Frist ist um (Hollander) (02:31)
1-5. Matti Salminen – Wie oft in Meeres tiefsten Schlund (Hollander) (08:06)
1-6. Matti Salminen – Chorus and Duet. He! Holla! Steuermann! (Daland, Steuermann, Holländer) (03:44)
1-7. Matti Salminen – Durch Sturm und bosen Wind verschlagen (Hollander, Daland) (03:57)
1-8. Matti Salminen – Wie? Hort’ ich recht? Meine Tochter sein Weib? (Daland, Holländer) (06:45)
1-9. Matti Salminen – Sudwind! Sudwind! (Steuermann, Matrosen, Daland, Holländer) (01:59)
1-10. Matti Salminen – Mit Gewitter und Sturm (Chorus) (02:10)
1-11. Matti Salminen – Summ und brumm, du gutes Radchen (Chorus, Mary) (03:31)
1-12. Matti Salminen – Du boses Kind, wenn du nicht spinnst (Mary, Chorus, Senta) (04:28)
1-13. Matti Salminen – Johohoe! Traft ihr das Schiff im Meere an (Senta) (05:49)
1-14. Matti Salminen – Ach! Wo weilt sie (Chorus, Senta, Mary) (01:17)
1-15. Matti Salminen – Senta! Senta! Willst du mich verderben? (Erik, Chorus, Mary, Senta) (01:49)
1-16. Matti Salminen – Duet. Bleib, Senta! Bleib nur einen Augenblick! (Erik, Senta) (08:01)
1-17. Matti Salminen – Auf hohem Felsen lag ich traumend (Erik, Senta) (04:15)
2-18. Matti Salminen – Mein Kind, du siehst mich auf der Schwelle (Daland, Senta) (01:40)
2-19. Matti Salminen – Mogst du, mein Kind, den fremden Mann willkommen heissen (Daland) (05:30)
2-20. Matti Salminen – Duet. Wie aus der Ferne langst vergang’ner Zeiten (Hollander, Senta) (06:20)
2-21. Matti Salminen – Wirst du des Vaters Wahl nicht schelten? (Hollander, Senta) (04:53)
2-22. Matti Salminen – Ein heil’ger Balsam meinen Wunden (Hollander, Senta) (01:49)
2-23. Matti Salminen – Verzeiht! Mein Volk halt draussen sich nicht mehr (Daland, Senta, Holländer) (01:39)
2-24. Matti Salminen – Orchestral Interlude (00:50)
2-25. Matti Salminen – Steuermann, lass die Wacht! (Chorus) (02:15)
2-26. Matti Salminen – Mein! Seht doch an! (Chorus, Steurmann) (06:49)
2-27. Matti Salminen – Johohohe, Johohohe! Hoe! Hoe! (Chorus) (03:16)
2-28. Matti Salminen – Was musst’ ich horen (Erik, Senta) (02:11)
2-29. Matti Salminen – Cavatina. Willst jenes Tags du nicht dich mehr entsinnen (Erik) (02:54)
2-30. Matti Salminen – Finale. Verloren! Ach, verloren! Ewig verlor’nes Heil! (Hollander, Erik, Senta) (02:21)
2-31. Matti Salminen – Erfahre das Geschick, vor dem ich dich bewahr’! (Hollander, Erik, Senta, Daland, Mary, Chorus) (05:16)

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