Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot From: chabot@miles.DEC (High Anxiety Workstations) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Goetterdaemmerung: bad pressing? Message-ID: <2961@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 22:25:05 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2961 Posted: Sat Jun 29 22:25:05 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 05:29:54 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network 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. 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