Hints and tips:
...It all sounds evocative of the full score, but one misses the beauties of Weber’s original. The most striking scene by far is the Wolf’s Glen extravaganza....
...It would take an exceptional imagination to transform the interior of the Barbican concert hall into Weber’s hellish, supernatural Wolf’s Glen, where storm clouds muster over the moonlit rocky peaks and...
...But Hartmann does not extend his quasi-abstract reading to the central Wolf’s Glen scene, which is played relatively straight....
...This is the point director Axel Köhler tries to make in his new production of Weber’s Der Freischütz for Dresden’s Semperoper....
...Weber Der Freischütz Colin Davis (LSO Live, 2 CDs)...
...In fact, the vigorous, transparent playing of his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique – yelping natural horns and shrill piccolos – goes even further and turns the stop-go structure of the Wolf’s Glen...
...Embody is the brainchild of noted designer Jeff Weber and the late Bill Stumpf....
...There is even a shooting contest, and a nocturnal meeting of conspirators aims for the mystery of the Wolf’s Glen....
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