Wilson Pereira <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Besides Liszt's, there is also Wagner's transcriptions, recently recorded >by the BIS label, featuring Noriko Ogawa (piano), Yoshie Hida (soprano), >Yuko Anazawa (alto), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Chiyuki Urano (bass), Choir >of the Bach Collegium Japan and conducted by Masaaki Suzuki. The recording >was very much praised in the March issue of BBC Music Magazine. For whatever it's worth: I only heard the last movement of this particular recording blaring over the sound system in a record store. The solo singing was suprisingly idiomatic, but as soon as we hit the choir, be prepared for some curiously Japanese diction and intonation. Lionel Choi Singapore http://www.singnet.com.sg/~lionelc/dummies.html