Der fliegende Holländer / Weikl, Studer, Domingo, Sotin, Seiffert; Sinopoli
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Music CD Cover Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 1998-08-11 Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for Der fliegende Holländer / Weikl, Studer, Domingo, Sotin, Seiffert; Sinopoli Album
Free Music Review: An essential modern Wagner performance.
Hit: 5 Stars
Here is the perfect answer to the Beckmessers who keep saying that no Wagner recording of today can match the historical recordings of the 50's and the 60's. For this may, in fact, be the best Fliegende Holländer ever. Well... of course, as far as vocal power and musical intelligence are concerned, Weikl can't rival the supreme Hotter - or even the brutish London -. But still, his presence is real, and he uses the occasional weaknesses of his ageing voice to compose a deep and haunted and attaching character. As for Sotin, who can be a most routine-minded singer if badly conducted, he will seem rather transfigured to those who have seen him in Bayreuth, as he takes full advantage of his still very beautiful voice to explore all the aspects of Daland's character. But the true marvels of this album lie elsewhere. The first jewel is undoubtedly Domingo's performance, which simply eclipses all the Eriks of the whole discography : the incredible beauty, the unimaginable warmth and the baffling youth of the voice, along with the incandescence of the incarnation alone would make this album worth buying. But they are more than matched by a young Studer at her best, in what may be her best recorded opera performance. One doesn't know what to praise most : the purity, the power and the magnificence of the voice, the extreme commitment of the artist (who shows once more that, though limited as an actress on stage, she can convey an immense range of emotions with her only voice) or her capacity to impose, with her own, specific abilities, a completely new vision of Senta's character - a sort of child-woman, lost in her dreams but with an incredibly strong personality -. But all of that would certainly not have been possible without the iron hand of a fantastic project manager. Imposing a lightning tension from the very beginning of the Overture, Maestro Sinopoli never releases his grip until the very end of the opera, and manages to keep the listener's full attention to the drama from the very first note to the very last, thus delivering an amazing lesson of how young Wagner should be conducted - somewhere between Dorati's italianism end Klemperer's romantism, but with more dramatic sense than the first, and less German heaviness than the second -. So... good news : for once, you won't have to make do with the cracklings of a live recording from 40 years ago to enjoy a Wagner opera at its best !