Wagner, Richard - 3SACD: Tannhäuser - Janowski, Marek
Robert Dean Smith (Tannhäuser)
Nina Stemme (Elisabeth)
Marina Prudenskaya (Venus)
Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
Peter Sonn (Walther von der Vogelweide)
Albert Dohmen (Landgraf Hermann von Thüringen)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Marek Janowski
This is the 6th instalment of PentaTone's successful Wagner Edition. It is the first time in the recording history that a label records all major Wagner opera's with the same orchestra, choir and conductor. This makes the PentaTone Wagner Edition a great collector's item. After this release follows Der Ring des Nibelungen. The 4 opera's of the "The Ring" will all be released in the course of 2013, The WAGNER YEAR (Celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth in 1813) All operas are recorded live in the Philharmonie in Berlin. The first five recordings were awarded with "Editor's Choice" (Gramophone), Recording of the Month and Opera Choice of the Month (BBC Music Magazine), CD of the week (Sunday Times).