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One of La Cieca’s newest and nicest friends, Cyrano, shares the second act: http://rapidshare.com/files/173080005/Tristan_121208_-_Act_2.mp3
And the third act: http://rapidshare.com/files/173069319/Tristan_121208_-_Act_3.mp3
No first act?
Thank you anyways!!!!!
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Just back from hearing Anja Kampe in just Act 2 of Tristan under Jurowski. Whoever stated she had no voice is wrong. A lyrical approach to the role but with enough projection and the top “C”s to fill a 3000 seater hall. A true Italian trained soprano. R D Smith again a lyrical Tristan.
Hello, Sir Morosus. I opted for Steven Osborne in Messiaen’s Vingt Regards, at two hours plus without an interval longer than most Wagner acts, but I can’t say I regretted it. But will have to catch Kampe at Glyndebourne again. How did you rate Jurowski’s conducting?
Regie,
Wagner-lite (though I hate the phrase). No sense of the great arching span but beautifully phrased and transparent, although that is an aspect of the LPO being on the platform in the analytical RFH accoustics. At least the soloists were at the front rather than in the choir stalls as in the disastrously balanced Korngold Helene.
Sarah Connolly was a sumptuous Brangäne.
#6–Kampe’s voice was thin, colorless, and forced the two times I saw her in LA at a 3,000 seat venue. I’ll be seeing her again in April in Die Walkure. I hope she is as good then as you found her, but I have low expectations.
Tristan without the first act is like a day without sunshine.
Tristan without the first act is merely two acts too many….
Thank you.
Thanks so much for this. I didn’t see the note in the NY Times until it was too late. That’s what I get for not reading the paper first thing in the morning.
Good to see Melot’s younger brother (10) keeping up the family pro-sunlight tradition. I suppose by rights I ought to kill him in a loyal but gormless manner but I’m feeling friendly today.
Many thanks La Cieca – and get well soon, New York City; hope the cough clears up soon… (or did someone bring a dog into the stalls?)
I dragged myself up off my own Act 3-style sickbed (traditional Xmas flu) to the Kampe-Smith-Jurowski Act 2. I know what Sir Morosus means – a bit cold, is another way of describing Jurowski. But he’s always interesting, and sometimes I thought I was getting onto his “zen” level (as he’s called it, I gather) and it got really good. The orchestra (LPO) seems to be getting better and better and at times was amazingly eloquent. He doesn’t seem so interested in building things gradually. His technique of marking sforzandi a beat or two before they happen can be very distracting! He’s still ludicrously young, remember…
Kampe’s voice seems bigger and warmer than before, if not quite as abandoned as I’d like it in the loud, high bits. I know she’s capable of wild ecstasy from Fidelio (Namen-, namenlose freude etc.), so let’s see. She looks great, of course – the new Meier? RDS – pretty good but also holding back a tiny bit I thought. Good old Laszlo Polgar for a touching Marke when he was obviously not well
This should start a fight or two, by the way – famous Wagnerians choosing their favourite CDs and DVDs. I found the link on the “intermezzo” blog. Irene Theorin recommends herself! But with an ironic wink…
I cannot stand some opera queens. They’re almost always looking for something to fight about . Curvy, do not even rouse them to a fight. It can get very ugly.
well I listened to both clips. She does indeed have that loud top people are talking about, but I still say she sounds like a pushed up mezzo soprano. I also still find it rather ugly.
She is the best. I am assuming this is Waltraut Meier.
No, it’s Waltraud Meier.
any word as to whether meier will be singing isolde on tuesday?
Thanks for posting the clips!!!!
Oops. I went phonetic for some reason.