Wagner: extracts from The Ring; The Flying Dutchman
Egils Silins (bass-ba); Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, David Zinman
RCA Red Seal 88725479412
As he has in Strauss, Mahler and latterly Schubert, Zinman presents here a leanly-textured, clear and exciting interpretation of these Wagner highlights. The Ride of the Valkyries and Siegfried's Rhine Journeyknock your socks off, while his Sunrise is richly coloured and deeply touching. Latvian Egils Silins makes an enormous impression as The Dutchman and (as he proved recently in Manchester) Wotan in what is an exceptional one-disc Wagner feast.
*****
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