DVD Talk review of 'Wagner: Siegfried / St. Clair, Staatskapelle Weimar' (Blu-ray)
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DVD Talk review of 'Wagner: Siegfried / St. Clair, Staatskapelle Weimar' (Blu-ray)
I read Jeffrey Kauffman's DVD review of Wagner: Siegfried / St. Clair, Staatskapelle Weimar at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=38036 and...
I just saw the conclusion of Act III of this production of Siegfried on the ARTS Channel. I was in college when the Decca Siegfried first came out, and I remember how thrilling Nilsson and Windgassen were in this very scene. The entire score was handled so brilliantly by Solti. The Vienna Philharmonic reaching heights I never thought would be possible when I first read the orchestral score in class. That all said, this televised piece of the DVD lacked just about everything that Wagner lavished on his "scherzo" to the Ring. Okay, no one alive today could really equal Nilsson, Wingassen, and Solti; but this production was so awful as to be really unforgivable. What a stupid mess! Why Wagner receives these psychotic productions is beyond me, but this kind of takes the cake, right up there was a production of Meistersinger I read about that was placed in a concentration camp.
I just saw the conclusion of Act III of this production of Siegfried on the ARTS Channel. I was in college when the Decca Siegfried first came out, and I remember how thrilling Nilsson and Windgassen were in this very scene. The entire score was handled so brilliantly by Solti. The Vienna Philharmonic reaching heights I never thought would be possible when I first read the orchestral score in class. That all said, this televised piece of the DVD lacked just about everything that Wagner lavished on his "scherzo" to the Ring. Okay, no one alive today could really equal Nilsson, Wingassen, and Solti; but this production was so awful as to be really unforgivable. What a stupid mess! Why Wagner receives these psychotic productions is beyond me, but this kind of takes the cake, right up there was a production of Meistersinger I read about that was placed in a concentration camp.
