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Mitch Friedfeld wrote:
>Can listmembers please provide recommendations for a complete Ring
>cycle. Requirements: Sound must be good. Analog is okay; mono is
>acceptable but must be at the level of say, the remastered Callas Tosca.
>The Furtwaengler La Scala Ring falls below this standard and is therefore
>not under consideration. Please specify whether a libretto is included.
Consider Karl Bohm on Philips. Top notch cast (Nielsen, Windgassen,
Neidlinger, Adam, etc,), the Bayreuth Orchestra playing "live", a "live"
performance which is exciting, crackling with tension, but lyrical too.
Cheap as chips to buy. No libretto, though. However, I have a number
of Rings without libretti so an investment in the excellent "Wagner's
Ring: A Companion" edited by Steward Spencer and Barry Millington which
contains Spencer's excellent, line by line translation is a good idea
and covers you for any future purchase.
Tony Duggan,
Mahler recordings survey at:
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/Mahler/
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