Review: The Philharmonic's Maestro Revels in the Classics
So it was almost radical to instead give that position to the Act I Prelude from Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” probably the most-played chestnut…
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So it was almost radical to instead give that position to the Act I Prelude from Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” probably the most-played chestnut…
Jaap van Zweden returned to the orchestra for the first time since October with a conservative lineup of works by Wagner, Beethoven and Brahms.
Hans Sachs (left) at 2017 Bayreuth Festival I wrote a little preview of the San Diego Symphony livestream entitled Wagner meets Mozart and mentioned that I didn’t quite understand how the concert hung together. After watching the livestream, I still don’t get it. The concert started with an all-brass arrangement of the Act III Prelude from Wagner’s Meistersinger. Hans Sachs, the meistersinger, is awake in his study lost in thought after the riots which swept through the town the previous night. Sachs has a lot to think about at this point in the opera. Themes such as the advent of ol...