Amar Mehmedinovic
As typical, the Met concludes its season with two orchestral concert events at Carnegie Corridor, the first is an all-Richard Strauss program that features Yannick Nézet-Séguin main Elza van den Heever in a number of the composer’s Orchesterlieder.
Chris’s Cache presents right now a smörgåsbord of these luxurious soprano songs carried out by celebrated Straussians Edita Gruberovà, Genia Kühmeier, Soile Isokoski, and Asmik Grigorian together with 5 by Jonas Kaufmann, as soon as once more proving he can sing something.
It’s odd however satisfying that the Met, after neglecting to carry out any Strauss final season, has allowed Nézet-Séguin and van den Heever to lean so closely into his works this season, first with the heralded Die Frau ohne Schatten revival adopted by the just-concluded new manufacturing of Salome. As an addendum, Leon Botstein leads a live performance efficiency of Guntram at Carnegie Corridor on 6 June starring Angela Meade and her husband John Matthew Myers as Freihild and Guntram.
Strauss on the Met continues this November with a revival of its 1983 manufacturing of Arabella with Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Louise Alder and Tomasz Konieczny.
Of right now’s quintet, Gruberova presents the 5 Brentano Lieder, whereas the others current a number of the same old suspects. Isokoski included a few of these on her celebrated Vier letzte Lieder recording, however I couldn’t discover any Strauss within the beautiful Kühmeier’s sparse discography. Kaufmann included most of his alternatives in his early Harmonia Mundi CD of Strauss songs with piano, however I haven’t run throughout different paperwork of him performing these songs with orchestra. Grigorian cancelled her current scheduled Vier letzte Lieder at Carnegie Corridor, so we’ll have to attend till a rumored Met Salome in just a few seasons to pattern reside her Strauss.
Strauss Orchesterlieder
An die Nacht
Ich wollt ein Sträusslein binden
Säusle, liebe Myrthe
Als mir dein Lied erklang
Amor
Edita Gruberova
Orchestre Philharmonique de Good
Conductor: Friedrich Haider
Good
2? February 1999
Cäcilie
Heimliche Aufforderung
Meinem Kinde
Ich wollt’ ein Sträusslein binden
Morgen
Zueignung
Ruhe, meine Seele
Genia Kühmeier
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Philharmonie, Köln
21 September 2007
Broadcast
Hymne an die Liebe
Das Rosenband
Die heiligen drei Konige
Morgen
Cacilie
Soile Isokoski
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Litton
Barbican Corridor, London
28 January 2009
Broadcast
Ruhe, meine Seele
Ich trage meine Minne
Morgen
Cäcilie
Zueignung
Jonas Kaufmann
Metropolis of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Andris Nelsons
Paris. Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
12 March 2012
Broadcast
Cäcilie
Zueignung
Morgen
Asmik Grigorian
Wiener Symphoniker
Conductor: Petr Popelka
Musikverein
18 January 2025
Broadcast
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