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From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Das Rheingold on CD
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Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 18:03:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 19 18:03:47 1984
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I haven't heard Das Rheingold on CD, but I have a remastered CD of
Solti/Chicago playing overtures and incidental music from other
Wagner operas. It's magnificent - the best "demonstration" CD in
my small-but-growing collection.

The only complete opera I have on CD is the much-maligned Traviata
Although the singing is not their best, and
Dame Joan has never been renowned for her crystalline diction, the
intelligibility (is this a word?) of the words is every bit as clear
on CD as LP - probably more so in the absence of surface noise.

I have other vocal CDs - Domingo/LA Phil/Giulini "Opera Gala"; Lucia Popp
with Tennstedt/LPO in Strauss 4 Last Songs; Kiri Te Kanawa singing
Mozart Concert Arias - all of which are amazingly clear and quite
intelligible.

If you haven't already guessed, this tin-ear thinks CDs are great!
-- 
                               Rod Williams
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         "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"