Lohengrin

Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Camilla Nylund (Elsa), Katarina Dalayman, (Ortrud), Evgeny Nikitin (Friedrich von Telramund), Falk Struckmann (Heinrich der Vogler) & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Dutch National Opera Chorus, Mark Elder

Na het enorme succes van de productie van Wagners Der fliegende Holländer (RCO 14004) was een follow-up onvermijdelijk. Met de eminente Wagner dirigent Mark Elder en een cast van internationaal befaamde solisten was de productie van Lohengrin in december 2015 een complete triomf. Het begin van een Concertgebouw traditie?

After the enormous success of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's 2013 production of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer (RCO14004) a follow-up was inevitable. With the eminent Wagnerian Mark Elder leading the RCO and a cast of internationally acclaimed soloists the production of Lohengrin in December 2015 was a complete triumph. The beginning of another RCO tradition?

Wagner:
 Lohengrin

"The biggest hurrahs go to Elder, the choruses…and the orchestra in its own home. Add Nylund’s vocally fearless heroine…Youn’s imposing Herald and Struckmann’s textually so clear and more baritonal-sounding than usual King, and that’s nearly enough…a valuable and mostly compelling document"
Gramophone Magazine - June 2017

"Elder's reading is patient and sensitive, alive to the work's grandeur but never allowing that grandeur to spill over into bombast. It's a very fine account of the piece, and one that emphasizes the quiet tragedy at its core."
Opera - July 2017

"This is in some ways the finest modern recording of Lohengrin, in the first place on account of Sir Mark Elder’s superbly detailed, passionate and large-scale conducting of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra…[Vogt] is persuasive in the role [of Lohengrin]…Camilla Nylund is ideal, pure of tone but not insipid, and capable of always beautiful passionate outbursts"
BBC Music Magazine - July 2017 ****