Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder: Overtures and Preludes, etc | Classical CD review

Brueggergosman/Cleveland Orchestra/Welser-Möst(DG)Some UK listeners still associate Franz Welser-Möst with his unsuccessful years with the London Philharmonic in the early 1990s. Taped live in Cleveland earlier this year, however, this disc of Wagner extracts is a reminder of what a powerful musician he subsequently became. There's one weak link – the Wesendonck-Lieder – which is awkwardly recorded. Soprano Measha Brueggergosman is placed so close to the microphones that you're far more c...

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