Tannhäuser

"Janowski keeps the score, which has some longueurs, moving and builds up impressive climaxes in each act ... The title role is taken by the ubiquitous Robert Dean Smith, in one of his more persuasive preformances ... Nina Stemme sounding too heroic for the part ... but she makes an impression. All told I would say that this is the best recording since that made in Bayreuth in 1962".

"Marek Janowski bevorzugt zumeist forsche Tempi, bietet eine entschlackte, unpatetishce Partitur-Exegese".