De Nederlandse Opera & Nederlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Hartmut Haenchen
Live recording, September 2005
SACD - 2 discs
$22.00
Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days.
September 2007
“A great modern Ring continues as the Amsterdammers dig into the details. Throughout, Haenchen makes the music sound of its time, be it a light Mendelssohnian (or, perhaps, French) grace for the watery figures accompanying the Rhinedaughters, or the flexible, almost improvised recitative which carries the many conversations of this work. It's truly a Rheingold informed by period-instrument practice, but don't imagine for a moment that noise (bringing up of the gold in scene 4) or dramatic brio (the run-in to Erda's intervention) are not all there when needed”
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