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Gabriel Feltz

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A Powerhouse Album by German Musical Genius Gabriel Feltz (born 1971)Born in Berlin in 1971. He studied at the Berlin Hans Eisler Academy of Music, honed his skills at the opera houses in Lbeck and Bremen, and in 2001 was appointed Music Director of the prestigious Altenburg-Gera Opera House; in 2005, he also took on the role of Music Director of the Stuttgart Philharmonic. He has garnered attention as a German conductor who worked his way up through the theater system. While his true strength lies, of course, in opera, listening to his orchestral recordings on the DREYER-GAIDO label reveals him to be an astonishinglyand perhaps even fearsomeconductor with a highly distinctive style.The general Mahler Renaissance that began in the early 1960s is not due to Bernsteins achievementsthe liner notes are provocative from the start, but the performance itself is not the abnormally slow, ponderous ren