Did anyone hear this review last Saturday?
I was immediately confused to hear Birgit Nilsson singing "I could have danced all night" supposedly conducted by HvK and with the VPO, when it is now pretty much common knowledge that he and the VPO had nothing to do with the Fledermaus "Gala" items issued by Decca as part of that set.
It is many years now since John Culshaw published this information in his book "Putting the Record Straight". He let the cat out of the bag by telling that all the Gala items were recorded by pickup orchestras and conductors wherever the singers happened to be at that time.
Mind you, Decca never published this on the original LPs and later CDs, they just let everyone assume it was Karajan and the VPO. DG have now continued the deception.
Apparently David Nice who reviewed the monster set was not aware of this.
Caliban mentioned ( on another thread) how great it was to hear Vickers again in the commercial Die Walkure and I must agree. Karajan and Vickers were a great combination which lasted 15 years or so.
The set was well reviewed by Mr Nice.
I was immediately confused to hear Birgit Nilsson singing "I could have danced all night" supposedly conducted by HvK and with the VPO, when it is now pretty much common knowledge that he and the VPO had nothing to do with the Fledermaus "Gala" items issued by Decca as part of that set.
It is many years now since John Culshaw published this information in his book "Putting the Record Straight". He let the cat out of the bag by telling that all the Gala items were recorded by pickup orchestras and conductors wherever the singers happened to be at that time.
Mind you, Decca never published this on the original LPs and later CDs, they just let everyone assume it was Karajan and the VPO. DG have now continued the deception.
Apparently David Nice who reviewed the monster set was not aware of this.
Caliban mentioned ( on another thread) how great it was to hear Vickers again in the commercial Die Walkure and I must agree. Karajan and Vickers were a great combination which lasted 15 years or so.
The set was well reviewed by Mr Nice.
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