classical music: Jan-Hendrik Rootering

classical music: Jan-Hendrik Rootering

classical music:

Jan-Hendrik Rootering

Wagner, James Levine, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

"Furchtbar nun erfind ich des Fluches Kraft!"
There are over 20 complete recordings of Richard Wagner's "Der Ring Des Nibelungen". This, with James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera, is one of them. This conductor has his own fair share of Herbert von Karajan's lyricism, Only, his lyricism is softer and much ...

Ode to Freedom: Bernstein Conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Berlin

Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1990

I will only listen to this work in private
For years, when I listened to the 9th, I would play the 1st and 2nd movements and then skip to the finale. I enjoy crisp, energetic and powerful music and the 9th has it in unsurpassed measure. And this rendition provides just that. I haven't listened to all the ...

Mahler 8 [DVD Audio]

Peter Mattei, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, ...

Decca, 2003

THE MOST SPECTULAR EIGHTH
I now own 10 versions of the 8th , and without doubt, this is the most exciting version to date. Not only because that C Major is used more in this performance then in any other performance I have yet to listen to. The Organ is so important to this symphony and yet , ...

Beethoven - Ode to Freedom (Symphony No. 9 )/ June Anderson, Sarah Walker, Klaus Konig, Jan-Hendrik ...

Euroarts, 2006

The last Symphonic Opus: a relevant historical document!
This symphony is not only a huge and variegated tapestry of cosmic thinking, emblematic poetry and sublime penchant. Each one of the movements expresses much more than words can say. But what Bernstein legated us in 1989 with motive of the fall of Berlin's wall when ...

Mozart: The Complete Da Ponte Operas (Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan tutte)

W.A. Mozart, Riccardo Muti, ...

EMI Classics, 2002

Good Overall
Seeing Mozart's Da Ponte opera cycle for sale at the price of only one opera it was hard to resist purchasing it (after all, it would cost at least twice as much to buy all three of these operas directed by Muti, seperately.) This boxed set is a mixed bag of good ...

Schumann: Requiem Op. 148, Der Rose Pilgerfahrt Op. 112, Requiem fur Mignon Op. 98b, Mass Op. 147 - Wolfgang ...

Bruno Pola, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

Schumann for Schumann Completists
The EMI Gemini series is more often about convenience and cost savings than about definitive performances of repertoire pieces. Here, we have a case in which the pieces involved, except for "Requiem fur Mignon," are so far outside the standard repertoire that they are ...

Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle) / Sawallisch, Bayerischer Staatsoper

Richard Wagner, Julia Varady, ...

EMI Classics, 1998

"Blut-Bruderschaft schwore ein Eid!"
This live Ring recording might not be as good as the Karajan, Janowski, and Krauss ring, but it's not at all a hopeless wreck. I guess you can say that Sawallisch is half-Karajan, half-Janowski. While he does stay true to the orchestral score like Janowski, he also ...

Wagner - Parsifal / Levine, Weikl, Mazura, Metropolitan Opera

Bernd Weikl, Jan-Hendrik Rootering

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

A tremendous experience
Levine's 1993 Met performance and Horst Stein's 1981 audience-free Bayreuth production are the only traditional "Parsifals" on DVD, so a comparison seems in order. The Bayreuth "Parsifal" has very fine singing but is marred by less than involved acting and occasional ...

R. Strauss - Die Frau Ohne Schatten

Wolfgang Sawallisch, Luana DeVol

TDK, 2007

Good performance of a difficult opera
"Die Frau ohne Schatten" is a challenging opera to perform and this production is remarkable for the impressive singing and the staging, which helps to make what is muddled comprehensible. While Act I remains coherent, the storyline then gets bogged down and becomes ...

Wagner - Der fliegende Holländer / Morris, Voigt, Heppner, Rootering, Groves, Svendén, MET, Levine

Deborah Voigt, Richard Wagner, ...

Sony, 1997

A Fine Dutchman
This recording, featuring noted Wagnerians James Morris and Deborah Voight, is a great recording of Dutchman. I can't figure out why there are so many negative reviews here. Morris' Dutchman is nothing short of stunning and Voigt makes an amazing Senta (her ...

Mahler: Symphonie No.8

Bryn Terfel, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1995

Mahler's 'only opera' very well served by maestro Abbado ...
I do believe, or feel, that Mahler's Eighth Symphony is being served well with restraint and thoughtfulness on the conductor's part, like here with maestro Claudio Abbado. I mean, we have here a performance of Mahler 8 that - to me at least - sounds exactly as it ...

Schumann: Mass, Op. 147/Requiem in D flat major, Op. 148
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Helen Donath, ...

EMI Classics, 2004

Verdi - Luisa Miller / Millo · Domingo · Chernov · Quivar · Plishka · Rootering · MET · Levine

Giuseppe Verdi, James Levine, ...

Sony, 1992

A lovely Luisa
I just can't understand what happened to Aprile Millo, for some 5 years she sang magnificently and seemed the soprano we had been waiting for decades, and then the voice was gone and her international career was over. At least she left a handful of opera recordings ...

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar' [Hybrid SACD]

Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Dmitry Shostakovich, ...

Bis, 2006

Haitink is not the only view availabe!!
This an astounding recording! The bass is at least notable. The conducting is very charachteristic. Playing is quite aweome. Haitink and Wigglesworth are quite on par with each other. I listened to Haitink's recording and compared Rinztler and Rootering. They are ...

Mahler: Symphony No. 8

Detlef Roth, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2005

Caveat lector: this is an amateur review.
First of all the playing of the orchestra: I think it is polished and very sweet, and very refined also, relishing in all the gorgeous tone-colours, but I like that in Mahler's Eighth Symphony, so it is just great. This may for a part be the result of the very clear, ...