Tennstedt: Rienzi

I was going to do a long and involved post about Boulez' second piano sonata and the recordings by Biret and Jumppanen. I don't have the energy at this point, other than to say that I think Biret does a better job, though Jumppanen is no slouch in this profoundly difficult work. Instead, I decided to give you Klaus Tennstedt conducting the London Philharmonic in the overture to Wagner's Rienzi.



I like this overture, and I don't see what else there is to say, other than Tennstedt never got his due during his too-short life (72, if I recall, "middle-aged" for conductors).