Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Shasta.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!amdcad!decwrl!Glacier!Shasta!palmer From: palmer@Shasta.ARPA Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Goetterdaemmerung: bad pressing? Message-ID: <6587@Shasta.ARPA> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 18:51:02 EDT Article-I.D.: Shasta.6587 Posted: Sun Jun 30 18:51:02 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 08:28:50 EDT References: <2961@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Stanford University Lines: 30 > Can anyone report any luck with ANY copies of the Solti / Vienna Philharmonic > performance of _Goetterdaemmerung_?! Based on my experiences with the London > digital re-mastering, I'd advise anyone: "Don't!". There's this really awful > glitchiness on the second side (near the end), in Act I Scene 1, in Hagen's > next-to-next-to-last spiel, "...so ruestiger Kraft / in des Ruders Schwung > ###/ ### r#u#e#h#m#t # s#i#c#h # n#u#r # der, / ...". Groaty to the extreme, > it sounds like a folded or badly spliced tape; this is not a scratch on my > platter. > Well, I pulled out my compact disc copy, cued to the appropriate spot, and sure enough the described glitch is there. An interesting question is whether the glitch occurs on earlier pressings; I've never heard one of them. I have to disagree about the negative recommendation on the recording because of this one glitch. I have a reasonably good front-end (Linn Sondek) but would be suffering much more from the way an LP set would sound after the many, many playings I've enjoyed than from this one glitch. It isn't quite the same as a live performance, but then again I can listen to it any time I like, without having to stand for 6 hours, and without having people rustling programs, sneezing, etc. around me. You win some, you lose some. On a slightly related note, John Culshaw's book "Ring Resounding" is a fascinating tale of the entire "Ring" recording project. Well worth digging out of the local library. Bill Palmer whp4@su-sierra.arpa