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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0095115314821
Format: Box set
Label: Chandos
Manufacturer: Chandos
Number Of Discs: 4
Publisher: Chandos
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Running Time: 292 minutes
Studio: Chandos
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Usually I find the orchestration of this opera a bit over-rich, thick and stodgy, but not so with Goodall. He thins out the texture wonderfully while revealing the counterpoint and the inner parts far clearer than ever before. Here it has such air and space to breath, that instead of being heavy and complacently bourgeois it is light and lyrical.
He achieved much the same thing with 'Parsifal', in the Sadler's Wells version, and transcendance too, and I look forward eagerly to the release of ... Read More
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This is a much-talked-about live recording, long thought lost, of a BBC broadcast in 1968 of an English-language production of Wagner's 'Die Meistersinger' from the Sadler's Wells Opera (now called the English National Opera). It was conducted by Reginald Goodall who was all but unknown then but who soon became known and much lauded for his conducting of Wagner's operas. It has an all-English cast, all but one of whom were singing their roles for the first time; the exception was Norman Bailey, who ... Read More
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The previous review sums it all up. The conducting, playing and singing is sublime. The recording/ remastering quality for a radio broadcast is brilliant.
I played all 4 cds in one sitting the day I bought it.
The only slight negative is the singing in an english translation it does take a bit getting use to (the composer probably would turn in his grave)
If you want to have only one recording of this great masterwork it is well worth considering
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