In Reply to: Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle - San Francisco Symphony posted by Robert C. Lang on June 22, 2012 at 02:03:13:
You are lucky, you do not have to understand the singers. I am cursed with the language they sing it in. The music is fine, the libretto is horrible. I do not know what possessed Mr Bela when he decided to put that stuff to music. Arguing about keys in operatic singing can get irritating. Even Bartok could not make me vant to listen to opera :), i gladly listen to anything he ever composed, but that one just does not compute.
Besides that i am glad you liked it.
dee
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Follow Ups
- ugh.... - Penguin 16:55:49 06/22/12 (8)
- I guess my collection is even more inexplicable to you. - Larry I 06:06:04 06/25/12 (0)
- Understood but...................... - Kal Rubinson 08:03:40 06/23/12 (1)
- The Eötvös/Hanssler disc would have been off my radar - thanks for the recommendation! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 16:12:54 06/24/12 (0)
- "does not compute" - Chris from Lafayette 20:51:55 06/22/12 (4)
- Yeap the only thing worse is when - Penguin 08:30:24 06/23/12 (1)
- LOL - the "very very large block of salt" noted [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 19:33:28 06/23/12 (0)
- Agreed - tailspn 08:24:08 06/23/12 (1)
- Oops - forgot to mention the Fischer/BFO recording. . . - Chris from Lafayette 14:04:53 06/23/12 (0)