Ivan Fischer with Wagner in Bruxelles
Vorspiele & Ring-Fragmente
Ivan Fischer and Budapes Festival Orchestra guested Thursday March 4th Palais des Beaux Arts in Bruxelles with an interesting and well performed concert with Richard Wagner Ouvertures, Interludes and fragments from Das Ring des Niebelungen – Götterdämmerung
. With the wonderful Mezzosoprano Petra Lang as Brünhilde.
It became one of the big Wagner evenings so far this year
. Petra Lang was outstanding as Brünhilde. The Budapest Festival Orchestra leaded by Ivan Fischer, started prudent, but when they came to the Ouverture to Meistersinger in Nürnberg, they have got used to the surroundings and good acustic in Palace des Beaux Arts, and from then on the temperature was good, and it became a wonderful evening. Remarkabel brilliant horns, and many good details in the forming of the demanding and well kown repertoire
.
In a program as follows:
Richard Wagner
Siegfried-Idyll (1870)
Tannhäuser: Vorspiel & Bacchanal (1842-1845)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Vorspiel (1845-1868)
Götterdämmerung: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt, Trauermarsch &
Brünnhildes Schlussgesang (1869-1874)
Richard Wagner, who considered Beethoven to be an example to follow, had symphonic ambitions throughout his life. In his younger years, he wrote many overtures and even two symphonies, and he made outlines of purely instrumental works until the end of his life
. Although his strictly orchestral music often did not progress past the draft stage, fabulous symphonic passages are found in his musical dramas, with a value of their own when played separately
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. In addition to the famous ‘Vorspiele’ which summarises the essence of the drama, Tannhäuser – with its long ballet scene added for Paris – and the Ring are particularly full of examples, such as Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt, the funeral march and the closing scene ofGötterdämmerung, as well as Siegfried Idyll, which Wagner composed based on themes from Siegfried and offered as a birthday present to his wife Cosima.
Production Bozar-Music, Festival van Vlaanderen-Brussel |
Co-presentation Bozar-Music, La Monnaie |