Re: Music that is "lucky"/"unlucky" on disc?

>I don't think Otello's been lucky at al

> Serafin has Rysanek, who sounds like Otello's great-aunt (Serafin himself
sounds a bit past it)

I like Rysanek but agree about Serafin.  I also find the orchestral playing
surprisingly unpolished.  But the whole thing is too tame.

>Solti I is
>tamely conducted, Price makes gorgeous sounds but never sounds quite right,
>Cossutta is coarse-toned, Bacquier past it (if interesting at times)

Solti positively races through the score!  I agree about all the singers. 
There's even a passage in the last act where Cossutta and Solti are out of
phase by about a measure for about four bars.  Don't know how that got past
everybody at the recording sessions.

-david gable