The sound samples do sound very good for live Bayreuth, wish they sold a complete 1960 & 1962 Kempe Ring set since $3.99 shipping for each opera from Amazon USA is a cost killer.......Originally Posted by Itullian
They're on my list DA.
Not sure of the sound on the ROH one though.
The sound on the 60's Bayreuth set is very good. Really one of the best Rheingolds I've EVER heard.
A 62 Kempe cycle is coming out too.
Whats a Wagner nut to do?
I see Presto UK has both Kempe 1960 and 1962 Rings available on Myto label, amazing the shipping is much cheaper than Amazon USA local shipping feeThey're on my list DA.
Not sure of the sound on the ROH one though.
The sound on the 60's Bayreuth set is very good. Really one of the best Rheingolds I've EVER heard.
A 62 Kempe cycle is coming out too.
Whats a Wagner nut to do?
True, but I always worry about shipping damage when shipping something that far.I see Presto UK has both Kempe 1960 and 1962 Rings available on Myto label, amazing the shipping is much cheaper than Amazon USA local shipping fee
What's your experience with Presto. How they package the items and speed of delivery?
Brilliantly packaged in a rigid cardboard box with plenty of padding. And reasonably fast but not usually same day dispatch.
Oh and if you contact them they reply straight back. Hear that, Amazon?
Natalie
I am a true Wagner nut.
I'm embarrassed by the number of recordings I have,
Uhh, not really.
Looks like that 62 set has O.Wiener as Wotan?I see Presto UK has both Kempe 1960 and 1962 Rings available on Myto label, amazing the shipping is much cheaper than Amazon USA local shipping fee
Interesting choice.
It's lovely to revisit this a year after seeing it with OL friends. Then we had the excitement of the live experience, and with the DVD you get the pleasure of close ups and seeing details that you miss in the house. It is a tremendous production. DA will love Anna Caterina Antonacci in this, I am sure.
I'm listening to this on Spotify because it is Gramophone's first pick for building a library. Oh dear, wish I hadn't, because it's now in my cart at Presto. Langridge's Vere is the perfect mix of man of war and poet, John Tomlinson menacing as Claggart and Simon Keenlyside virile and youthful as Billy. Gramophone has it right.
This incoronazione di Poppea, which came as part of my massive Baroque box set, is very beautiful, sometimes at the expense of characterisation. I prefer my Nerone a bit more bonkers, my Poppea more steely and my Arnalta more eccentric. But still a pleasurable listen.
Natalie
Nice! I'll be sure to buy this, when I get back home.It's lovely to revisit this a year after seeing it with OL friends. Then we had the excitement of the live experience, and with the DVD you get the pleasure of close ups and seeing details that you miss in the house. It is a tremendous production. DA will love Anna Caterina Antonacci in this, I am sure.
"J'ai dit qu'il ne suffisait pas d'entendre la musique, mais qu'il fallait encore la voir" (Stravinsky)
While most of the opera world stages and records the same canonical works over and over again, I have been enjoying listening to the half-dozen extant recordings of operas by neglected Irish composer Michael William Balfe (remembered, if at all, for "The Bohemian Girl"). Here are two brief excerpts from his once popular opera "Satanella, or The Power of Love," taken from the 1977 live recording by Opera Integra:
Back to canonical works!
I loved Le Rossignol on this. Oedipus Rex is pretty austere, the DVD still in my UWP.
Despite the fright wigs, this will be my go-to Sonnambula as far as staging goes, with some extremely respectable singing (the crowd went wild about Jessica Pratt's last aria).
Natalie
After a brief wander around different dimensions (Der Ring des Nibelungen, Written on Skin) I am back on home ground.
Che bella.
Bellisima
blah, blah, blah
Sennheiser extended opera hours. So many operas, so little time...
Sony Opera House for under a tenner. You must be joking. Well I'm not. I'm the one writing this shurrup
No, really good. I think they geddit
One of my favorites.
Nice to hear it with digital sound.
Itullian didn't listen to Wagner!
Natalie
My first reaction: Quick! Someone check Itullian's temperature!Itullian didn't listen to Wagner!
Oh! Can't do this over the interweb
Second reaction: What Is Boito's Mefistofele?
Wiki says "...[Boito] an admirer of Wagner..."
Everything okay now.
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