FULL OPEN-AIR-NACHT MIT SIR SIMON RATTLE Munich 2024 Anja Kampe, Michael Volle
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: OPEN-AIR-NACHT MIT SIR SIMON RATTLE
- Composer: Wagner Richard, Brahms Johannes
- Libretto: Richard Wagner
- Venue & Opera Company: Odeonsplatz, München, Germany
- Recorded: July 12, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Anja Kampe, Michael Volle
- Conductor: Simon Rattle
- Orchestra: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Information about the Recording
- Published by: BR KLASSIK
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: BR KLASSIK FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Richard Wagner
“Die Walküre” – Walkürenritt
“Die Walküre” – Finale des 3. Aufzugs , Wotans Abschied und Feuerzauber
Johannes Brahms Symphonie Nr. 2 D-Dur, op. 73
Against the picturesque backdrop of Munich’s Odeonsplatz, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle invite you to a musical summer evening in the open air. The program includes excerpts from Wagner’s “Walküre”, with Anja Kampe and Michael Volle, as well as Brahms’ Second Symphony.
The Feldherrnhalle will become an opera stage for 8,000 fans at “Klassik am Odeonsplatz” when Sir Simon Rattle indulges his passion for Wagner with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Even before he started as the new chief conductor in autumn 2023, his “Ring” project with the BRSO had progressed to “Siegfried”. In the first part of the concert, Rattle will present highlights from the most popular part of the tetralogy, “Walküre”, which deals with a classic father-daughter conflict. With Wagner’s most famous hit, the Ride of the Valkyries, Rattle creates a lively atmosphere in the open air right from the start. Then the heart-rending final scene follows – the father of the gods, Wotan, is overcome with pity for his rebellious favorite daughter, Brünnhilde. So much so that he mitigates the punishment he has imposed of becoming human with a wall of fire: only a fearless hero will conquer her! “Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire” is rightly considered one of the most magical moments in Richard Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung”. Anja Kampe and Michael Volle were already part of Rattle’s BRSO “Ring”, and now they delight the audience again with the passionate dialogue between Brünnhilde and Wotan.
In contrast, after the break Rattle conducts the summery Second Symphony by Johannes Brahms – in typical self-irony he wrote to his publisher in 1877: “The new symphony is so melancholic that you cannot bear it. I have never written anything so sad and plump: the score must appear with a black border.” Exactly the opposite is the case: the idyllic D major symphony with its song-like melody is the loveliest and friendliest of Brahms’ four symphonies.