Composers: Weber
Compositions: Der Freischütz
Performers: Lise Davidsen s, Andreas Schager t, Frankfurt RSO/Marek Janowski
Catalogue Number: Pentatone PTC5186788 (2CD)

This new Freischütz joins a long line of fine recordings of a work in which young German conductors display their chops, and to which old ones return with obvious fondness. Marek Janowski falls into the latter camp, having made a well-received recording with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 1994. This time round he’s at the helm of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and he offers up a more vivacious account, bolder and more colourful than the subtle glamour of...