Which Dream of Gerontius?

[Lilas Pastia]

Barbirolli for me.  I like the Boult too, but orchestra and chorus esp. I don't enjoy the Britten very much. It fails to move me. Barbirolli is very moving. Sometime in the late fifties he did Gerontius in Rome with Jon Vickers. There's a bootleg version out there somewhere. Oh, why has this not been commercially recorded?

[val]

I have the Barbirolli version. Not many contrasts, but remarkable soloists: Baker, Kim Borg and Richard Lewis.

[Lilas Pastia]

Here is an exhaustive review of all versions available (as of 1997 - but they don't come out like hot cakes anyway, so it's still quite up to date). The reviewer painstakingly analyses each of the work's key components (conducting, soloists). Fascinating.
http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9706&L=bmusic-l&P=8429

[PerfectWagnerite]

Here is an exhaustive review of all versions available (as of 1997 - but they don't come out like hot cakes anyway, so it's still quite up to date). The reviewer painstakingly analyses each of the work's key components (conducting, soloists). Fascinating.
http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9706&L=bmusic-l&P=8429

Thanks ! Fascinating.

It seems like no one other than the British ever performs this work.

[karlhenning]

Here is an exhaustive review of all versions available (as of 1997 - but they don't come out like hot cakes anyway, so it's still quite up to date). The reviewer painstakingly analyses each of the work's key components (conducting, soloists). Fascinating.
http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9706&L=bmusic-l&P=8429

Merci beaucoups, mon vieux!

[karlhenning]

Thanks ! Fascinating.

It seems like no one other than the British ever performs this work.

There's going to be a performance at Symphony Hall this season coming.

[PerfectWagnerite]

There's going to be a performance at Symphony Hall this season coming.

REALLY ? Who is conducting? If I have to put money on it it would be a British conductor.

[karlhenning]

REALLY ? Who is conducting? If I have to put money on it it would be a British conductor.

Not sure, as I don't have the schedule to hand.  But I should guess Sir Colin Davis, who of course has long been a welcome guest here in Boston.

[Bunny]

Sacrée vache!

Your cow has been crowned?  I think you mean Ste. Vache or Vache sainte.

Sarge, apologies to Soeur Vache, but you have to be dead before you are a saint.