Astrid @ The Lomax
Review of Astrid, playing live in Liverpool, by musicOMH.com.
http://www.musicOMH.com/gigs/astrid.htm |
Astrid HQ
Four-piece guitar band from Northern Scotland. Includes a band history, gig dates, reviews and Real Audio samples.
http://www.astridhq.com/ |
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Verdi: Rigoletto (Audio CD),30 January, 2001
List price $36.98
Desert Island recording with a caveat / 5
I first bought this recording as a set of 45's as a kid in the 1950's. It's been with me ever since and will always be one of my favorite recordings of this opera. With that in mind, I was very excited to see it was finally issued on CD. Having heard BMG was licensing recordings they weren't planning on issuing themselved to other labels, I assumed this set would be from the original master tapes, which at the time was a big deal as it represented RCA's first venture in recording a complete opera on tape (in 1950). Being familiar with the 45 set, the lp set and a commercially availble 1/2 track mono reel of the excerpts, I was disappointed to hear the Preiser set (as well as the Naxos set) as they sadly, are from lp transfers. The original recordings were done on tape, at 30 ips and the sound is amazing. The sound on the present set of CD's is pinched and distorted in spots with a heavy amount of compression, as was the case with the original vinyl release. Even though these CD's are clean and well transferred, they do not represent the true quality of the original sessions. I would recommend this set as a stop-gap because, in the final analysis, it's the performance that counts. However, knowing a much better recording of this exists makes it frustrating and one can only hope the people at RCA/BMG consider an "offical" release of this treasure soon.
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