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S. Wagner: Die Heilige Linde.(Sound Recording Review)
[] Schellenberger, Lukic, Georg, Halmai; Wegner, Horn, Scharnke, Kuzel, Trekel; West German Radio (Cologne) Symphony and Chorus, Albert. Libretto and translation. CPO 999-844 (3)
As a composer of late-Romantic German opera in an era attuned to Wagner and various post-Wagnerian moderns, Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930) suffered a bad press--not least from his own family, who considered it their sacred duty to promote only the works of his father, Richard. Siegfried knew, better than many of his time, that Richard Wagner was an impossible act to follow. He chose his own path, one that ran closer to the likes of Humperdinck (his teacher), Hermann Goetz and Joseph Rheinberger. Like Saint-Saens, he didn't let conservatism prevent him from responding in his own way to elements of newer styles, such as those of the French Impressionists and Richard Strauss.
The received image of Siegfried as a mild-mannered, well-intentioned dilettante is misleading. A master of his chosen genre, he wrote with skill and sensitivity for the voice, often in a conversational flow. Equally able as a librettist, he alternated a storybook manner (sometimes rhyming the lines) with poetic imagery and the journalistic directness of verismo. If his music is seldom novel, it is personal, often warmly satisfying and dramatically apt. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Siegfried worked on some eighteen opera projects, eleven of which reached the stage during his lifetime. Die Heilige Linde (The Holy Linden Tree, 1927), near the end of the list, remained unperformed, but a slow resurgence of interest in his work since World War II has produced, among other recordings, this CPO concert version of Die Heilige Linde by West German Radio. Supported by the station's admirable orchestra and chorus under Werner Andreas Albert's committed hands, the singers, though not world stars, bring life to the score and its characters.
Die Heilige Linde begins with a lovely, ambitiously conceived prelude. The plot proceeds ...
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