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Hi Christer,
Which Ring Cycle?
1. Karajan
2. Solti/Vienna Phil
cheers
P.
Which Ring Cycle?
1. Karajan
2. Solti/Vienna Phil
cheers
P.
I kid you not, I came to the topic right now to ask if you guys had a favorite for L'elisir d'amore.Hi Christer,
I fully empathize with you: I'm saturated for Beethoven and Mahler. No more symphs or chamber (LvB) from them for me. Might get the hi-res of Anda/Brahms Cto 2/Grieg Pf Cto/Karajan + Kubelik BPO. Not the finest versions of these two warhorses, but always interesting to hear Geza Anda. He did a marvelous Mozart cto box set with the Salzburg Acad (a student orch!). One of my two ref cycles of Moz pf ctos (the other is Perahia/Engl Cham/Sony).
I might also start getting some fun operas, like Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment and L'Elisir d'Amore (Sutherland and Pavarotti, 96/24). Maybe some Bel Canto from Bellini and company.
Will be offline for two weeks. Hope you get some more concertizing/listening.
cheers
P.
Hi Pete,Maybe this box:
Or this:
Sorry but I can't really help you regarding Bellini. But I suspect you may be looking for the famous Carlos Kleiber/Beethoven 7th with the Vienna Philharmonic?the entire Nibelungen, then Hamlet in one play. old school binge like it's before internet again.
I kid you not, I came to the topic right now to ask if you guys had a favorite for L'elisir d'amore.
when I start hearing the intro to "una furtiva lacryma", I get such massive goose bumps(I get some now just playing it in my mind). same stuff with Pagliacci and the "vesti la giubba" moment. the rest of those operas seem dull to me because I'm always just waiting for those specific moments.
oh sorry but I could also do with suggestions for Beethoven symphony n°7 if there are some opinions on that. I'm sure I had a version of it, I can remember a cover with the Deutsche Grammophon logo and some dude acting all wizardly with his wand(for once it wasn't Karajan). but I couldn't find it in my library the other day. damn gremlins! eating my songs and stealing my CDs.
Hi Pete,
I have both Rings ,Solti has Birgit Nilsson and for the period,early to mid 60s, spectacular but exaggerated sound balance with lots of shifting balances. Karajan's for DGG is less spectacular on most systems. But more realistically balanced and interpretatively more refined and "beautiful" than Solti's.
I can sit spellbound through a whole Opera with Karajan but not with Solti.
Karajan was a master of "the long line" but Solti was not imho.
The two Solti versions you quote are actually the same recordings but packed differently and probably priced accordingly?
Cheers Christer
the entire Nibelungen, then Hamlet in one play. old school binge like it's before internet again.
I kid you not, I came to the topic right now to ask if you guys had a favorite for L'elisir d'amore.
when I start hearing the intro to "una furtiva lacryma", I get such massive goose bumps(I get some now just playing it in my mind). same stuff with Pagliacci and the "vesti la giubba" moment. the rest of those operas seem dull to me because I'm always just waiting for those specific moments.
oh sorry but I could also do with suggestions for Beethoven symphony n°7 if there are some opinions on that.
Sorry but I can't really help you regarding Bellini. But I suspect you may be looking for the famous Carlos Kleiber/Beethoven 7th with the Vienna Philharmonic?
There was actually imho, quite an intriguing version of the 7th last night at the Proms played by the BPO under their new chief conductor Kirill Petrenko.
Cheers Christer.
PS yes Pagliacci can make you reach for the hanky ,can't it?
Mea culpa.Bellini? You mean Donizetti (L'Elisir).
Reason I don't have any Wagner on my music. Mozart has very nice tunes on his operas esp se viver non'deggioThe more I think about it, I am more inclined to listen to the Highlight discs of Wagner's Ring Cycle. I have Karajan, Solti, and Jurowski (Dresden) for highlight discs. And just ordered the Bohm/Bayreuth two-fer highlight set. Each > 2hrs. Can't really sit through full Wagner operas, even on DVD video. Don't care for much of the recitatives and shrieking melodrama.
Mozart, on the other hand, I can sit through, because of the humour and of course, the sublime TUNES.