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