For Wagner and Vinyl fans

I saw that too. It's all digitally sourced, so doing it vinyl and charging more makes no sense to me. I'll pass. I would rather see it as 24/96 lossless at a fair price. 

Here are the details: http://www.deutschegrammophon....p;PRODUCT_NR=4791505

Limited Edition:
0289 479 1505 8 6 LPs
ADD/DDD GM6

Only Kleiber's Tristan excerpts are digital recordings. No doubt the others have been remastered but who knows at which resolution?

EJ

Any info on mastering engineers and pressing plant?

I don't see much of the point either since the original of those records can be had relatively easy and inexpensively.

Look at the details: ADD and DDD

That is clearly digital domain for the recordings. ADD means they were recorded to analog tape, but digitally mixed and mastered. DDD is digitally recorded, mixed and mastered.

Nothing analog about these. The vinyl part is a waste. Move along folks, nothing to see here...

Some of these were definitely from the analogue tape era, but I still cannot see the point of "Bleeding chunks" of Wagner on vinyl when you have the continuity this music needs either on CD, or, even better, on hard disk, so that the pauses come where intended by the composer rather then when a side runs out.

ATB from George.

Agree with George that the set as a whole doesn't hold too much appeal for the seasoned collector - but the jewel of this set is Jess Thomas' recital. They may be bleeding chunks, but he was a great Wagner tenor and not usually associated with Siegmund or Walter, so it's good to have his thoughts in this way.

Cheers,

EJ

Dear EJ,

I see that there are sample listening options for some of the tracks!

Jess Thomas, what a voice!

ATB from George

Are you coming around on Wagner, George?

EJ

Dear EJ,

I know Wagner better than you might think. Thirty years ago it fascinated me ... this huge music.

Apart from bleeding chunks, I owned LPs and CDs of the Ring [Furtwangler, Radio Italia, and La Scala, Milan as well as the Bohn set at Bayreuth], Meistersinger [Knapertsbusch], Tristan [Furtwangler, Philharmonia], and Parsifal [cannot remember who though], so as I knew these recordings quite well, I found myself more and more distant from the music for many reasons.

Today you would find not any recording by Furtwangler in my library, and the only Wagner is the Meistersinger Overture play by the BBC SO conducted by Beecham, plus a setting of the Prize Song played by Beatrice Harrison on the cello. Oh, and Flagstad singing the Wesendonk Leider ...

But I do appreciate great singers, and great artistry in performence even if I am not quite on the wavelength of the music performed.

Very best wishes from George

George, you don't have Klemperer's Fliegende Holländer? 

EJ

Strangely, I never did get that one.

It is out again on CD now at a very nice price.

ATB from George