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Alan Cooper  
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 More options Oct 5 2012, 4:06 pm
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From: Alan Cooper <amcoope...@SPAMoptonline.net>
Date: 05 Oct 2012 20:06:08 GMT
Local: Fri, Oct 5 2012 4:06 pm
Subject: Re: Bruno Walter's 1942 MET Don Giovanni newly restored by Ward Marston
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Oscar <oscaredwardwilliam...@gmail.com> wrote in
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> On Thursday, October 4, 2012 2:23:57 PM, Don Tait wrote:

>> Thanks for this. I saw it in the newest Wave Hill CD catalogue and
>> was tempted. My old source was Edward J. Smith LPs. I know that if
>> Ward did this, it will be as good as can now be. You've convinced me.
>> Now I'll buy it.

> Let us know how it sounds.

>> The Don Giovanni performance is stupendous. It's classic Bruno
>> Walter  Mozart: high power and drama, not an idea of eighteenth-
>> century Dresden china delicacy. Years ago a friend, hearing the last
>> third of Act One here, said "this is like an earthquake!"

> I've never heard Walter conduct opera, so I am looking forward to
> getting this at some point. What is your favorite studio recoding of
> Don Giovanni?

A hard question to answer, because you "need" Siepi's Don, but neither of
the studio recordings (Krips or Leinsdorf) is preferable to the live
Salzburg recording conducted by Mitropoulos, imo.  I note that the Myto
reissue (I have the earlier Sony) also includes a Della Casa recital from
Salzburg as filler, and that is serious added value.

Back to studio recordings, I can do without a number of the standard
recommendations, including Giulini (also better live) and Gardiner.  
While with Krips and Leinsdorf the conducting is the problem, many
recordings are ruled out for me by one or more of the vocal performances
in an opera that lives or dies on the strength of the ensembles (Fricsay
and Davis, for example). Overall, I'm still fond of Oestmann, which is
crisply conducted and strongly cast (Cachemaille is a fantastic
Leporello).  Jacobs is worth hearing as well.  Harding might be
preferable for the conducting if it were better sung.  I have yet to hear
the much-touted Nezet-Seguin recording, and would appreciate reports from
those who have.

AC


 
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