Richard Pennycuick <[log in to unmask]> reports: >NB: Not all are immediately available everywhere. The historical ones may >not be available in the US because of copyright considerations. How did you know about these releases now? (If I am allowed to ask that) - They haven't been announced at www.hnh.com yet. >Naxos Historical > >WAGNER: Siegfried >Lauritz Melchior, tenor / Kirsten Flagsted, soprano / Friedrich Schorr, >bartitone / Kerstin Thorborg, mezzo-soprano / Karl Laufkotter, baritone >/Eduard Habich, baritone / Emanuel List, bass / Stella Andreva, soprano / >Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Artur Bodansky, >conductor (Broadcast on 30th January 1937) Which work is this actually?? Glud to see it is a Metropolitan at least, as making it "secure". Then I always welcome Wagner releases, both by Richard der Einzige and Siegfried - but not without limits, which it feels distasteful when they are overstepped. The thing is, even since Wagner at the very start of the Bayreuth Festspiele in 1876 let hold a "private" performance (in 1876 most curiously of the music Wagner set to a play = Wagnermusic which never has been published!!), the Wagner-family has continued to do so. There are every nowadays every year in August "Public" performances, "Geschlossene" and "Private" performances. The private performances are the Wagner-familys own way of socializing with each other. It happens that such special performances have been recorded, but it has been meant to be a private family issue on the whole. Now I heard that some fanatic Wagnerlabel ("MYTO"???) has released some of these performances which they must have got their hands on under mystical circumstances, and published them as if they were equal to public ones. I think this is insulting and very disrespectful down to the line of harrassment to the Wagner family. Just that they are famous people, have they really NO right to have a fun private life (which they do everything to keep away from the public) in their family and a small circle of close friends?? Are these labels going to "borrow" (how they now define it) Wolfgangs diaries also and publish them as "Wolfgang Wagners Weltanschauung"?? But I guess we - who consistute the audience - shall just be HAPPY and PROUD over!! I have at least seen in google that there are people who loyally only dabble with publically performances. Please contact me privately if you are interested in more information upon anything of this. Mats Norrman [log in to unmask]