Opera Depot, the New York micro-record company, who specialise in off-air recordings have an interesting variant on the Goodall Ring cycle. They give us threequarters of one from ENO with Mackerras conducting Rheingold, Goodall conducting Valkyrie and Twilight of the Gods (no Siegfried sadly). Ava June is Sieglinde and Norman Bailey doubles Wotan and Gunther:
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What treasure trove, Chris - such names from their glorious past.
Just listening to the samples was sending shivvers of times fondly remembered down my spine - many thanks for alerting me to this!
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Oh dear! Another excuse to give the credit card a bashing!! Two I have spotted here are a Solti Gotterdammerung from 1970 (the date given is incorrect - it should be Sept 26 1970) and a Solti Tristan und Isolde from July 3 1971. I heard both of these live on R3 and will not forget them."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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