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Wagner - Mastersingers by: Richard Wagner List Price: £29.99 CD-Charts Price: £25.39 You Save: £4.60 (15%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0095115314821 Format: Box set Label: Chandos Manufacturer: Chandos Number Of Discs: 4 Publisher: Chandos Release Date: June 30, 2008 Running Time: 292 minutes Studio: Chandos Sales Rank: 15143 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The best 'Mastersingers' I have ever heard.Usually I find the orchestration of this opera a bit over-rich, thick and stodgy, but not so with Goodall. He thins out the texture wonderfully while revealing the counterpoint and the inner parts far clearer than ever before. Here it has such air and space to breath, that instead of being heavy and complacently bourgeois it is light and lyrical. He achieved much the same thing with 'Parsifal', in the Sadler's Wells version, and transcendance too, and I look forward eagerly to the release of this in the near future. Apart from it's transparency there is all the macro-view pacing we have come to expect from this conductor, at least in his live recordings. The result, of course, is that you come out of these long acts feeling energised ... Read More: Rating: - 'Meistersinger' in English: Good News, Bad News -- Mostly GoodThis is a much-talked-about live recording, long thought lost, of a BBC broadcast in 1968 of an English-language production of Wagner's 'Die Meistersinger' from the Sadler's Wells Opera (now called the English National Opera). It was conducted by Reginald Goodall who was all but unknown then but who soon became known and much lauded for his conducting of Wagner's operas. It has an all-English cast, all but one of whom were singing their roles for the first time; the exception was Norman Bailey, who had sung Hans Sachs in Germany (in German, of course). First, the bad news: Sound quality is not the best. There is some tape hiss, occasional poor balances, a good deal of stage noise (my goodness, you can really hear a lot of clumping around ... Read More: Rating:  - The holy grail of opera recordingsThe previous review sums it all up. The conducting, playing and singing is sublime. The recording/ remastering quality for a radio broadcast is brilliant. I played all 4 cds in one sitting the day I bought it. The only slight negative is the singing in an english translation it does take a bit getting use to (the composer probably would turn in his grave) If you want to have only one recording of this great masterwork it is well worth considering |
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