Soloists: Genia Kühmeier, Gerhild Romberger, Maximilian Schmitt, Luca Pisaroni
Conductor: Mariss Jansons
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
DVD (October 12, 2018)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: BELVEDERE
ASIN: B07GVZMK7S
“Nothing else that he wrote is as all-encompassing as the Mass in B minor, not even the great Passions,” says Herbert Blomstedt about Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Opus summum”. The Dresdner Kammerchor and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under the musical direction of Herbert Blomstedt have merged ingeniously to conclude the Bachfest Leipzig with this unrivaled work - a work that bears close connections to choir and orchestra, as well as to Herbert Blomstedt himself.
The poet E. T. A. Hoffmann as the protagonist of his own fantastic tales: In his encounter with three women - Olympia, Antonia, and Giulietta - he searches in vain for love and for himself. Will he draw the strength for art from his failure in life? Stage director Daniele Finzi Pasca brings an enchanting, fairy-tale-like spectacle to the stage with all the colourful means of theatrical magic.
