Marc Albrecht reviews
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra/Marc Albrecht (Pentatone)
R Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Burleske
Denis Kozhukhin; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra/Marc Albrecht (Pentatone)
Mozart: The Magic Flute [DVD]
Freshness of vision, emotional openness, genuine ensemble theatricality, a robustly physical sense of adventure humorous and serious (but never portentous) by turns, and an underlying directorial trust in Mozart’s music: these qualities stay with me most strongly after two viewings of this DVD, among the most rewarding experiences of the opera I’ve had in nearly five decades of Magic Flute encounters.