Some Operas That Could Use New Recordings.

[Wendell_E]

I'd love to hear a new Vanessa (by Barber). I have the live one with Price, etc. But a modern recording in better sounds minus the noises would arouse my interest.

Do you mean Antony and Cleopatra?  Price never sang Vanessa

There have been two new recordings of Vanessa in the last decade:  Christine Brewer, Susan Graham, and William Burden, Leonard Slatkin conducting on Chados.  http://www.amazon.com/Barber-Vanessa-Multi-Ch-Stereo-Samuel/dp/B000632PQI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1322082664&sr=8-2

and a Naxos recording made in Ukraine (!). http://www.amazon.com/Samuel-Barber-Vanessa/dp/B0000DKFZ6/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1322082664&sr=8-5

A recording of the original version of Anthony and Cleopatra would be nice, though I think the Barber estate insists on the revised version, but maybe since Menotti's died, that'll change.  There is a live Spoleto Festival recording of the revised version:  http://www.amazon.com/Antony-Cleopatra-Samuel-Barber/dp/B0000030D8/ref=pd_sim_sbs_m_4  According to amazon.com, I bought it in May of 2010, but haven't got around to listening to it yet, though I have heard the original LPs.  I've got a DVD of the Lyric Opera of Chicago telecast with Malfitano, but it's never been released commercially.

[knight66]

Vanessa.

http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.669140-41

Mike

[Cato]

    DG had a recording of  Taneyev's  Oresteia back in the 70s, but I don't believe this has  ever been reissued on CD.
   It used the forces of the Belorussian opera in Minsk, and  there were no big names in the cast . 
   Is it too much to  hope for a recording conducted by Gergiev ?  Let's keep our fingers crossed .

Hey NAXOS!!!  Over here!  Pay attention!

And a DVD of the early 1990's performance of Elektra by Hildegard Behrens/Deborah Voigt/James Levine/ Metropolitan Opera would be most welcome!

[val]

Mandryka
You mean in addition to this

Thank you. I didn't know that there is a recording conducted by Gielen.

[Wendell_E]

And a DVD of the early 1990's performance of Elektra by Hildegard Behrens/Deborah Voigt/James Levine/ Metropolitan Opera would be most welcome!

It's available!  You used to have to buy the whole Levine 40th anniversary box, but they've released some, including that Elektra, separately.

http://www.amazon.com/Strauss-Elektra-Levine-Metropolitan-Exclusive/dp/B0064SBBA0/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1322942064&sr=1-1

[patmos.beje]

The Vernon Handley 1995 broadcast of a good quality performance of  Holst's 'The Perfect Fool' can be downloaded form British Musical Broadcasts in the Unsung Composers forum at:-

http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,1895.0.html

[listener]

The Vernon Handley 1995 broadcast of a good quality performance of  Holst's 'The Perfect Fool' can be downloaded form British Musical Broadcasts in the Unsung Composers forum at:-

http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,1895.0.html

THANK YOU!

[StLukesguildOhio]

Any of the 75 or so unrecorded Offenbach operettas.

Yes indeed!

[StLukesguildOhio]

   Studio recordings of operas seem to be going the way of the dinosaur ,as they're so expensive to produce and often don't sell very well. 
    DVD is the big thing now in opera.   
   But here are some operas which really could use new recordings, studio or live.   None of these has had one  for many,many years ,as far as I can tell.

   Wagner : Rienzi .  Gustave Charpentier : Louise .  Samuel Barber : Antony And Cleopatra .  Richard Strauss : Die Schweigsame Frau.

   Italo Montemezzi : L'Amore De 3 Re.  Tchaikovsky : The Maid Of Orleans .  Tchaikovsky : The Enchantress . 

   Tippett : The Midsummer  Marriage .  Massenet : Le Jongleur De Notre Dame .  Alberto Ginastera : Bomarzo .

   Bohuslav Matyinu : Julietta .   Richard Strauss : Intermezzo .  Rimsky-Korsakov : The Snow Maiden .

   Leoncavallo : La Boheme .  (The other one !) .  Mussorgsky : The Fair At Sorochinsk .  Johann Strauss : A Night In Venice.

   Meyerbeer : Le Prophete .

Well I cannot imagine a better recording of Strauss' Night in Venice:



and the other Strauss' Intermezzo is far from being one of his better operas so I cannot fathom needing a better recording than Sawallisch with Popp and Fischer-Dieskau:



the same applies to Die Schweigsame Frau and Bohm's recording:



There are a couple classic readings of Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden... but only recently have they showed up in CD:





I agree I'd love to see... hear Gergiev take on this and the Maid of Orlean... although there is a newly remastered recording from 1946:



The samples on Amazon sound quite good for such a historical recording.

[mjwal]

THANK YOU!

Unfortunately this seems to have disappeared 
P.S. Correction - I found another link in the British and Irish Music Catalogue, and am now listening. Oddly, some of it sounds like G&S, except for the orchestration, of course, with suggestions of Elgar oratorios...Once is enough.