| SIR GEORG SOLTILP | ||
| WAGNER Tannhauser Highlights | ||
| This Vinyl is graded EXCELLENT on my grading system. The Cover is graded EXCELLENT on my grading system. black label Solti's handling of the score and his majestic conducting are what truly make this recording great.olti is Solti, rather bombastic, dramatic, not as subtle as other conducters such Karajan, Bohm, and Sawallich. This approch can be succesful enough with Verdi and Mozart, but when it comes to Wagner (and Strauss), he is nearly irreproachable. Here, he is still bombastic and direct, but he is more subtle than usual. He is, in fact, surprising in tune with the emotion of the score. The Majesty, the Mysticism, the love (and lust), the majesty: all the elements are brought to the listener's attention more subtlety than in the conductor's other Wagnerian recordings. The Weiner Philharmonker responds to his leadership to create one of the best played TANNHAUSERS on disk. In fact, it is the best performance of the work available.There are elements of other Tannhauser's you may want to experience: The Elisabeth of Popp and Silja, Fishcer-Dieskau or Eberhard Watcher's Wolfram, or the conducting of Wolgfang Sawallish, or even the Dresden version of the Opera, but if one can only have one TANNHAUSER, this is it. amazon | |
