Audition: Strauss - Ein Heldenleben - Andreas Nelsons, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig
Audition: Strauss - Ein Heldenleben 12 May 2022 Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig (pp) Andris Nelsons This recording is part of a large set of Strauss orchestral works conducted by Nelson with this orchestra and the Boston Symphony. Perhaps DG’s attempt to challenge EMI’’s expansive survey of these works with Kempe in the 1970s. Soundwise, it’s OK. Much of the time it sounds like a clean studio recording but suffers from the familiar problems of the vagaries of live recording and is certainly not well rehearsed. These lapses might well have been fixed in the edit but they weren’t. It’s also important to note the audience is silent - if indeed they were there. In truth I think the Boston orchestra may have done a better job: there are some woeful slips here and I think the Boston strings would have brought a more compelling tone. The recording is pretty good though not without instruments dropping out of the mix and as ever the Battle was a struggle. Wh...
