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Siegfried
Composed by Richard Wagner
with Deborah Voigt, Plácido Domingo
Conducted by Antonio Pappano
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Tristan und Isolde
Composed by Richard Wagner
with Deborah Voigt, Violeta Urmana, Plácido Domingo
Conducted by Antonio Pappano
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This stunning disc includes the two long love duets from Act III of Siegfried and Act II of Tristan und Isolde; in Domingo and Voigt, Wagner's characters find powerful, vulnerable, almost transcendental exponents. Domingo's voice, of course, is no longer in the freshest bloom of youth: but if he is not the impossibly ideal 25-year-old Heldentenor about whom one fantasizes singing Siegfried, he brings an authority and sensitivity to the role that sweeps one away. Voigt too gets to the heart of the female characters, and sings Brünnhilde with such subtle vulnerability that her moments of powerful exclamation sound as if she is trying to convince herself of their truth. There is no bombast for bombast's sake, and the result is psychologically all the more true. Pappano, a conductor alive to every nuance of the singers' phrasing, brings a Mediterranean sensuousness to the score, and draws some remarkably luxurious sounds out of the Royal Opera House band. The acoustic also gives a wonderful depth to the texture, and the brass especially sounds gorgeous. The tingle factor of this recording is so high, it should carry a government health warning. --Warwick Thompson
This stunning disc includes the two long love duets from Act III of Siegfried and Act II of Tristan und Isolde; in Domingo and Voigt, Wagner's characters find powerful, vulnerable, almost transcendental exponents. Domingo's voice, of course, is no longer in the freshest bloom of youth: but if he is not the impossibly ideal 25-year-old Heldentenor about whom one fantasizes singing Siegfried, he brings an authority and sensitivity to the role that sweeps one away. Voigt too gets to the heart of the female characters, and sings Brünnhilde with such subtle vulnerability that her moments of powerful exclamation sound as if she is trying to convince herself of their truth. There is no bombast for bombast's sake, and the result is psychologically all the more true. Pappano, a conductor alive to every nuance of the singers' phrasing, brings a Mediterranean sensuousness to the score, and draws some remarkably luxurious sounds out of the Royal Opera House band. The acoustic also gives a wonderful depth to the texture, and the brass especially sounds gorgeous. The tingle factor of this recording is so high, it should carry a government health warning. --Warwick Thompson
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