Tonights music

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Why ever not DD? My Das Rheingold is the Solti version.

Is Graham Breeze really Colonel Kiilgore?

[Dubbintooth]

There's a fantastic documentry on BBC Four at the moment about Georg Solti. Apparently his recording of Wagner's Ring Cycle is still the best selling classical records of all time.

I wonder how many of those people have listened to it all the way through?

Have an original vinyl pressing in a sumptious embossed box, listened through completely more than once, and although I've got different bits of the cycle by Knappertsbusch and Furtwangler, my favourite version (also listened to many times) and a little more restrained than Solti, is the great cycle by Karl Bohm.

[Graham Breeze]

Some of the "bleeding chunks" # of Wagner must be amongst the greatest music composed. Genius can take many forms but Wagner was unquestionably one; although perhaps not always a very nice man.

# “Defects of form are not a justifiable ground for criticism from listeners who profess to enjoy the bleeding chunks of butcher’s meat chopped from Wagner’s operas.” Donald Tovey 1935

[Dubbintooth]

Genius can take many forms but Wagner was unquestionably one; although perhaps not always a very nice man.

Agree on both counts.

[Dynamo Dan]

Why ever not DD? My Das Rheingold is the Solti version.

According to the documentry last night it was one of the earliest examples of a stereo LP and many people bought it to show off their new double speaker set up!

I used to have it on CD, but someone nicked it off me during a student house party. A better class of theif obviously attends Russell Group universities.....

[Dynamo Dan]

This recording was also stolen!!!

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Played by Gilles Peterson this evening on 6 Music

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[nippersmith]

Listening to this last week!

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