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In Reply to: RE: Goodall's Tristan on its way. Yeas? Nays? posted by jdaniel@jps.net on July 18, 2016 at 08:42:34
. . . and concentration camp denier? THAT Reginald Goodall?
As for his "Tristan", here's one person's comment from the link below:
While I can understand Goodall being a total idiot politically, what I can't fogive is his tempi in Wagner. I struggled through his Tristan and it's absurd how slow he takes the music. At a couple points, it simply unravels because of the fascist nutter's tempi. Awful, rivalled only by the appalling Bernstein recording. I strongly suspect that in Goodall's case, it's "the Gramophone effect" i.e. hype from British critics.
I hope he enjoys his stay for eternity in hell for his comment about Bergen-Belsen, however.
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I must say this is one of my favourite in spite its slow reading. Almost 4.5 hrs!
Tristan und Isolde Timings (Complete with no cuts)
3.38 Böhm, Bayreuth, 1966 (DGG, CD)
3.44 Knappertsbusch, Munich, 1950
3.49 Carlos Kleiber, Bayreuth, 1974 (CD)
3.55 Furtwängler, Bayreuth, 1931
4.04 Mottl, Bayreuth, 1886
4.11 Toscanini, Bayreuth, 1930
4.15 Furtwängler, London, 1952
4.26 Bernstein, Munich, 1981 (Philips, CD)
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Seriously, I suspect some of his singers and musicians were Jewish, he's dead, and his poisonous politics and beliefs don't permeate the music, especially when not captured in analog.
. . . like my favorite:
That's partly because I like to have the visual element available too, as well as the extra channels - I guess it's all part of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" thing for me. ;-)
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I'm perfectly willing to admit that some listeners might prefer Flagstad, but if they haven't heard any Tristans since, say, 1985 (?) how would they know? It's as if they're stuck in a time warp. Surely, there's an element of sour grapes here?
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Elizabeth Schwartzkopff supplied a high C.
I read that Flagstad was heartbroken when word leaked out. That seems incredibly naive to me (i.e., to think that word wouldn't eventually get out).
But, per my subject line, what inquiring minds wanted to know was whether (per your subject line) Nina Stemme had the power of two on HER high C's. ;-)
Since the Belohlavek Tristan blu-ray was assembled from a run of performances, perhaps you could say that Stemme's high C's DID have the power of two (from different performances) - but at least both of them were probably her own! ;-)
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In an episode of The Flintstones, Wilma and Betty try to brainwash Fred and Barney into doing their preferred activities, including going to an opera starring Kirsten Flagstone.
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