Strauss: Elektra
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Performer: Eberhard WaechterPerformer: Eberhard W?chter
Composer: Richard Strauss
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Performer: Martha M?dl
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Astrid Varnay
Performer: Hildegard Hillebrecht
Performer: Lucia Popp
Performer: James King
Performer: Cvetka Ahlin
Performer: Helen Watts
Performer: Hildegard Rutgers
Performer: Judith Hellwig
Performer: Lisa Otto
Performer: Margaret Sjostedt
Performer: Richard Van Vrooman
Performer: Siegfried Rudolf Frese
Performer: Tugomir Franc
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-08-22
Music Label: Orfeo D'or
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Elektra: Wo bleibt Elektra?
- Elektra: Allein! Weh ganz allein (Elektra)
- Elektra: Elektra (Chrysothemis, Elektra)
- Elektra: Ich kann nicht sitzen und ins Dunkel starren (Chrysothemis, Elektra)
- Elektra: Es geht ein Larm los (Elektra)
- Elektra: Was willst du? Seht doch, dort (Klytamnestra, Elektra)
- Elektra: Ich will nichts horen (Klytamnestra)
- Elektra: Ich habe keine guten Nachte (Klytamnestra, Elektra)
- Elektra: Orest, Orest ist tot! (Chrysothemis, Elektra)
- Nun denn, allein! (Elektra, Orest)
- Orest! Orest! (Elektra, Orest)
- Ich habe ihm das Beil nicht geben konnen! (Elektra)
- He Lichter! (Aegisth, Elektra)
- Ob ich nicht hore? Ob ich die Musik nicht hore? (Elektra, Chrysothemis)
Free Music Notes for Strauss: Elektra
Free Music Review: Not worth the price or the quality
Hit: 1 Stars
Too many times one can get lured into spinning miester. I bought this CDs upon 5 star rating by several Amazon listeners. Now having heard all five available reportoirs : this one, Solti/VPO, Bohm/DPO, Sinopoli/VPO, and RCG/Dohnanyi, I can say that Solti's Sofiensaal-recorded version is the one to get. There, Decca has cleaned up the sound using Cedar/SNS 96KHz/24 bit technology, but more so on the drama, tension, superb noise-making by VPO, and overall feel of getting the value from the money well spent.
Here is the analysis of this CD: The sound quality here is mono, muffled, and with lots of hiss, if you are trying to listen to the soprano. It sounds more like recording from Bayreuth (esteemed venue of worst recordings), but actually from a live performance from Salzburg Festival on 17th August 1964 at the Gro?es Festspielhaus.(see http://www.salzburgfestival.at/popup_spielstaette.php?lang=en&id=3)
It just mars the experience of real / royal bitching by Elektra and Klytamnestra. The dogs - I mean Aegisths and Orest are even worse.
Upon further exploring the music, I checked the quality of ADD conversion. What I found is that Orfeo did not do even the least work on restoration of this work, especially if it is of such monumental nature. The WAV stream depicts the problem. The most rancorous sound is set at max volume, thus causing all subsequent amplitudes to be so drastically reduced that this is the criminal act on part of record producing. Most of the WAV is @ 15-22% of max amplitude (i.e volume). If you were to use a decent wave editor/ cleaner (like GoldWave, WavePad, Audacity, Nero, SoundForge, SonicFoundry, Sonar, etc..) you could know that the problem ....Orfeo did not do the job correctly.
In contrast, I think Karajan/VPO/Decca&EMI monoaural version of Der Rosenkavalier is far superior to later recording in stereo. It not that Orfeo cannot do it, they chose not to do it for this CDs. And that is the qualms for spending full price money for third-class record.
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