Author: Mike Scott RohanMike Scott Rohan
Date: Jul 4, 2008 11:07
As regulars know, I'm prevented by contract (quite understandably) from
posting my reviews on the group, and won't do so here. However, there's
been so much interest expressed that I did want to give people some idea
of how I felt. The more so, as things are crowded in the mag this month,
and while I was generously given more space, I still felt it wasn't
enough for seasoned Wagner junkies like us. So I hastily redrafted some
of my original notes into more readable form, substantially different
enough from the printed form to keep me out of trouble, and I hope
they'll be of some interest -- if, that is, you haven't bought it
already! A couple of you may recognise details you gave or confirmed,
for which again, many thanks.
I'll leave out the stuff I wrote introducing the recording, explaining
where it was from, why it was so special and the hunt for some kind of
restorable copy, since Peter Moores' original developed print-through
--
that we most of us know, I think. The text would lead on from there:
"So was the result worth it? Unquestionably yes. Let
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