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From: chabot@miles.DEC (High Anxiety Workstations)
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Subject: Goetterdaemmerung: bad pressing?
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Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 22:25:05 EDT
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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.

And, no, I'm not just a perfectionist frothing--this glitch has twice startled
me out of a light doze: this is the second copy I've tried.  I don't own any
previous releases of this performance--can anybody out there who has one
comment on whether this glitch exists more globally?  Or does anyone have it
on CD?  The rest of the set has no such problems, and I'm very fond of this
outstanding performance, but, yucko, I'm not going to keep this this this... 
I haven't gotten any farther yet, either time.

Information appreciated.  Also advice.  The Harvard Coop is going to get tired
of me bringing back a copy every week, I imagine, and if all the pressings are
this bad, what's the point.  Perhaps writing directly to London will have some
desired effect (and if anyone cares else, send me mail and I'll pass on what I
find out). 

Even my battered Murray Hill Furtwaengler doesn't have anything this bad on it!
(-: No, honest: this is only my second set.  Or, well, 2 1/4 set. :-)

So, in summary, London digital re-mastering edition of the Solti / Vienna
Philharmonic _Goetterdaemmerung_: disgusting.

L S Chabot   ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot  chabot@amber.dec@decwrl.arpa