Work: Rienzi, der Letze der Tribunen: Overture

Daniele Rustioni pairs orchestral music of Verdi and Wagner in his concert with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, prior to taking up the post of Guest Principal Conductor in April.

In this new distillation of The Ring, more is less.

Fail to inject the composer's cathedral-sized symphonic structures with a sense of rapt wonder and they can sound dull.