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. It's a very "period" interpretation, whatever the case; for example the third movement's just 12 minutes plus. Very quick tempi all over. To me it sounds too much like a dress rehearsal with piano ;) Derek http://www.inkpot.com/classical