Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Straussian modernism and Viennese Schmaltz

Garth, thanks for spotting that error. I'm afraid ...

2008-04-09T22:39:00.000+01:00

Garth, thanks for spotting that error. I'm afraid it is one I have made more than once as I know a Peter Frankl.

Misspelling Arthur Honegger is nothing compared with the number of people who get his nationality wrong.

Thanks for the tip on Owning the Olympics, I've made arrangements to obtain a copy because of your heads-up.

I love Die Tote Stadt to bits, I think it's a grea...

2008-04-09T19:25:00.000+01:00

I love Die Tote Stadt to bits, I think it's a great opera, Strassian modernism and Viennese schmaltz and all. The Royal Opera House production in 2009 should be well sung and conducted, if the past histories of the people involved are any indication.

Yikes is that Naxos recording bad! The score is cut to bits, the singing is strictly provincial level (for an opera that needs lungs that can sing Wagner well) and the sound is iffy. Much better is the RCA recording or the newly released version from Munich 1952 with Karl Friedrich and Maud Kunitz. They really have the style down.

Have to make a pilgrimage, as it were, to Brugge one of these days.

Pliable, to make amends for my having misspelled ...

2008-04-09T19:16:00.000+01:00

Pliable, to make amends for my having misspelled Arthur Honegger in your comment space on Monday, I'd like to try to make amends by helping you to correct your page-bottom tracking label for Benjamin Frankel (not Frankl).

[But don't touch Karl Weigl!]

Best,

gt

PS.

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Email received:Ah! But have you heard THIS versio...

2008-04-08T19:32:00.000+01:00

Email received:

Ah! But have you heard THIS version of the Metamorphosen, on gut strings yet :
Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss; Serenade and Elegy by Edward Elgar; Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (dir.). The Smithsonian Chamber Players. BMG/deutsche harmonia mundi 05472-77343-2, 1995.

The opening of the Metamorphosen almost sounds like something out of Dowland in this performance!

Cheers
David Cavlovic