Bruckner Symphony No. 7 & Wolf Lieder

Bruckner Symphony No. 7 & Wolf Lieder. Christian Thielemann conducts the Dresden Staatskapelle 2012 with Renée Flemming as soprano soloist. Program includes:

Hugo Wolf songs: "Verborgenheit", "Er ist's", "Elfenlied", "Anakreon's Grab", and "Mignon" (Second Verson)
Richard Strauss "Befreit"
Bruckner Symphony No. 7

Video directed by Henning Kasten; released 2013, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

Update on 2013-10-06 by Henry McFadyen Jr.

Rob Cowan in the September 2013 Gramophone at page 59 gave his glowing approval to this recording both as a performance and as an event (Thielemann's first concert as principal conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle).

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