Re: WAYLTL-January 2006
- From: "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyþ@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:49:02 GMT
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> Dana John Hill wrote:
>> Still not 2006 here yet, but on this Eve so far I have listened to
>> Wozzeck from the Met. Before that I played the Ozawa Gurrelieder.
>
> It's still 2005 here in Spring City, PA. So far I've heard the
> Toscanini/Philadelphia recordings of the Tchiakovksy 6th and Strauss
> Death and Transfiguration. The sound seems slightly better than the
> other works in the set, although there's a bit of overloading in the
> Strauss, and a little of the "underwater" effect at the end. I wish
> someone would have let Mark Obert-Thorne loose on these recordings. I
> suppose I'll get to the remaining unheard works (Debussy Iberia and
> Respighi Feste) later.
>
> Right now I'm making the pleasurable acquaintance of Lumbye, the Danish
> Strauss, via a Regis disc I picked up at Berkshire.
>
> For this evening, I expect to play some Offenbach - probably the
> English-language recordings of Orpheus in the Underworld by the Sadler
> Wells Opera from the 1960s and the English National Opera recording from
> 1987. Since "Ill Wind" blew up on the newsgroup today, I'll probably
> spin the Telarc recording of it. And since what is New Years without
> Strauss, I should play the Kunzel/Cincinnati disc I picked up a few
> weeks ago, and Matthew Tepper's collection "Ha, Ha, Ha" (four awful
> assaults on Mein Herr Marquis).
That last is an extremely limited edition, you know; my new CD/DVD burner
supposedly won't work with the little 3" discs, and I gave my remaining
unused stock of same to my brother for Hanukkah. There's your copy, my
copy, and one which I gave to a friend a few years ago. He had made the
mistake of mentioning that he had enjoyed watching the Llandaff Llolita's
Jerusalem special, and I decided it was necessary to give him some context.
He died unexpectedly last year, and I don't know where that disc wound up.
For the record, the four awful ones were Florence Foster Jenkins, Charlotte
Church, Arianna Obnoxious (a would-be "star" whose boyfriend and promoter
pushed her in rec.music.opera a while back), and Lesley Garrett; there was
also a good one (if a bit too precious for my taste) by Kathleen Battle,
for contrast. Today's Met broadcast of _Wozzeck_ contained an awful lot of
prefatory blither, including a snippet of the same aria even more precious;
my ears were glazing over and I failed to note the name of the soprano.
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