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Re: Which Meistersinger? Kna or Furtwangler?

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Subject: Re: Which Meistersinger? Kna or Furtwangler?
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by: kable - Wed, 17 Aug 2022 01:57 UTC

On Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 12:59:11 AM UTC-4, Andrew T. Kay wrote:
> David Gable wrote:
> [...]
> >For years I avoided anything conducted by
> >Knappertsbusch because of his reputation in some quarters as a slow and
> >ponderous conductor who was also inordinately sloppy The fact is his
> >Parsifal's may be slow,
> They're not really, unless the comparison is to Boulez. The famous, exalted one
> with Jess Thomas and Hans Hotter (I've never found it the be-all and end-all,
> myself, but never mind) is actually faster (250:12) than the two stereo
> versions that are perhaps most often recommended alongside it, Solti (260:10)
> and Karajan/DG (255:58).
>
> --Todd K

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