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In Reply to: RE: Wagner - Overtures, Preludes and Other Orchestral Music - Steinberg/PSO posted by Chris from Lafayette on June 26, 2015 at 21:30:53
Found this on QOBUZ. Who is 'Soundmark'?
It ure sounds great at QOBUZ Lossless FLAC so I'm guessing it was recorded very well for the time (which would be any time that Robert Fine was in the building).
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There's the one in my OP, and there was one which featured music only from the Ring cycle. Here's the original cover of the Command Ring excerpts album, plus the notorious Westminster Gold reissue from the 70's:
No Parsifal or Tristan excerpts (that I know of) were recorded for Command. Earlier on, he recorded a Wagner album for Capitol, which I suspect is the main source for the one you're seeing on Qobuz (at least the Parsifal and Meistersinger excerpts):
However, this Capitol album doesn't have the Tristan Prelude and Liebestod or the Gotterdammerung excerpts on it. For that, we have to go even earlier in the Capitol catalogue:
. . . and I think this album is early 50's pre-stereo, so I suppose they could have taken the Gotterdammerung excerpts from the Command Ring album (?). I guess someone would have to do more research about the origins of that album on Qobuz.
What I'm now suspecting is that whoever compiled that Wagner album on Qobuz got confused with this reissue:
. . . which contains a performance of the Tristan Prelude and Liebestod on a compilation album by William Steinberg AND Erich Leinsdorf. I believe the Tristan performance on this ablum is actually by Leinsdorf and derives from the following LP (which WAS recorded in stereo):
That's my theory for now anyway.
VERY Stereo, in fact, which is why I suspected the Command Classics connection.
Whatever, the Parsifal prelude is worth digging up for a listen.
maybe?
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