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• CD01 TK 01 Richard Wagner Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Vorspiel I Sehr mäßig bewegt
• CD01 TK 02 Richard Wagner Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Versammlung der Meistersinger Mäßig Etwas zurückhaltend
• CD01 TK 03 Richard Wagner Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Gesang der Lehrbuben Lebhaft doch nicht zu schnell Gamächlich
• CD01 TK 04 Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Sachsens Monolog Lebhaft Sehr mäßig Sehr breit
• CD01 TK 05 Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Vorspiel III Etwas gedehnt Sehr feierlich Etwas zögernd
• CD01 TK 06 Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Taufspruch Langsam doch leicht fließend
• CD01 TK 07 Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Zöge der Zönfte Gleiche Bewegung
• CD01 TK 08 Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Tanz der Lehrbuben Lebhaft Mäßiges Walzer Zeitmaß
• CD01 TK 09 Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Aufzug der Meistersinger Mäßig Sehr mäßig und zögernd
• CD01 TK 10 Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Walthers Preislied Sehr mäßig Ein wenig zurückhaltend
• CD01 TK 11 Meistersinger an orchestral tribute Schlußgesang Schnell Mäßig bewegt Etwas breiter
• CD01 TK 12 Eine Faust Ouverture
• CD01 TK 13 Deux Entreactes tragiques Allegro
• CD01 TK 14 Deux Entreactes tragiques Allegro con brio Adagio Tempo I
• CD01 TK 15 Overture to Columbus

Die Meistersinger:
an Orchestral Tribute
Entreactes tragiques No.1
Entreactes tragiques No.2
Eine Faust-Ouverture
Overture to ‘Columbus’

Neeme Järvi conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in the fourth album of their Wagner series. Their performances on the previous three volumes have received high critical acclaim. American Record Guide wrote of Volume 1: ‘This is wonderful playing and sound… Järvi knows exactly what to do to make the music speak. The orchestra sounds better than I’ve ever heard them.’

This disc features a symphonic arrangement by the Dutch composer and percussionist Henk de Vlieger of Wagner’s only comic opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. It is the only opera by Wagner centred round a specific time and place in history, rather than a mythical or legendary past. The story takes place in Nuremberg during the middle of the sixteenth century, and revolves around the real-life guild of the Master Singers, an association of amateur poets and musicians who developed a craftsman-like approach to music-making.

Wagner left the two early Entreactes tragiques unfinished, the first only partially orchestrated, and they are heard here in orchestrations completed by De Vlieger.

Completing the disc are the seldom performed and recorded Overture to Columbus, and Eine Faust-Ouvertüre by Wagner. Written in 1835, when Wagner was just twenty-two years old, the Weber-influenced Columbus Overture introduces the play by Theodor Apel. His Faust-Overture followed in 1840. Taking its inspiration from Goethe’s famous play, this work, together with Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, became the main example of nineteenth-century programme music.