jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) (05/11/84)
The original article was posted in net.audio, but I think readers of net.music.classic would be interested. >Decca Solti/Vienna, Wagner Ring excerpts > Given the stunning virtuosity of the Vienna Philharmonic (they > played in San Francisco recently, displaying a stunningly > unanimous bowing and phrasing, along with an incredible > hold-your-breath pianissimo), I don't understand why both DG > and Decca insist on recording some high school orchestra and > passing it off on a gullible public as the VPO. I have the Solti performance on LP (I didn't bother getting it on CD). This is the worst recording of the Ring excerpts I have heard. It is dull and boring most of the time. One of the selection on the disc is Siegfried Death and Funeral March, yet, most of this disc sound like a long funeral march. I suggest stay away from it. > The other CD version of this music, by Tennstedt and Berlin, is > well recorded, but the interpretation substitutes embalming > fluid for the waters of the Rhine. I really like the Tennstedt version of the Ring excerpts. -- Yosi Hoshen Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois (312)-979-7321 Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jho