... well, as there are "no wrong answers" - I think the Engelbert Humperdinck 1882 transcription for piano four hands, and perhaps also the Felix Mottl, which I have on CD performed on a 1924 Steinway-Welte Reproduktions-Piano ["Wagner Mécanique - Richard Wagner auf Musikautomaten des Münchner Stadtmuseums"]
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Yes, I thought she'd sung Isolde. She also sang Brunhilde (quickly followed by Elvira in I Puritani) in 1949, as well as KundryOriginally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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I have decided to go for Sir Reginald Goodall's WNO Parsifal first, this Good Friday (just)
Will do act 1 now and the rest in the afternoon and evening.
If I get time, I will listen to Thielemann and then maybe HvK and Boulez.
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Act two now.Originally posted by Beef Oven View PostI have decided to go for Sir Reginald Goodall's WNO Parsifal first, this Good Friday (just)
Will do act 1 now and the rest in the afternoon and evening.
If I get time, I will listen to Thielemann and then maybe HvK and Boulez.
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With making hot cross buns & the DIY there's not much time to listen to Parsifal, but if I did my choices would be Thielmann & Domingo, Knappertsbusch Bayreuth 1951 or Syberberg's film.Comment
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Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
Home made Hot Cross Buns sounds sooo appetising! I will have to make do with ones purchased from Greggs
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Just out of the oven & tested - yum!Comment
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Act 3 Parsifal Goodall, WNO.Comment
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Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
Home made Hot Cross Buns sounds sooo appetising! I will have to make do with ones purchased from Greggs
Just had a couple of M&S HCBs, bloody delicious...
Might give the Karajan 'Parsifal' a spin - the only one I feel the need to own (plus my downloaded copy on the iPod of the live Met one the other week with Kaufmann)..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I ended up getting mine from Morrisons. Toasted with lashings of butter, they were actually quite nice. Reasonable amount of fruit too.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I am nearing the end of Goodall's Parsifal, been eating, conversing with others about social class, so did not concentrate too much on it towards the end.
Think I will have a go at the Boulez tonight.Comment
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Prelude playing as I type, Karajan conducting - the Berlin brass playing, esp that searing trumpet sound, is unlike anything else I've ever heard...
(I rarely feel the need to continue after the singers come in... 
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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And now I finally get to Boulez, James King - Parsifal
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The recent Met relay of Parsifal was one of the most wonderful Wagner performances I've heard in years and deserves to be spoken of in the hushed reverential tones usually reserved for the likes of Knappertsbusch. Magnificent!"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Over the last couple of days, I have been working through Kna's 1962 live Bayreuth recording on Philips.
I have yet to decide what gets turntable-time tomorrow (possibly Goodall).
The question of hot-cross buns remains unanswered. No-one in the Beef Oven! household knows how to home bake them and previous years' offerings from Greggs will not do. Any suggestions are welcome.
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Can't go wrong with Hans Marksundsparks's traversal of Der Bun des HeißkreuzenOriginally posted by Beef Oven! View PostAny suggestions are welcome. 
Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 17-04-14, 09:57."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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