Myto:1938 Met Op PARSIFAL: Melchior,Flagstad,Schorr,Bodansky

Myto:1938 Met Op PARSIFAL: Melchior,Flagstad,Schorr,Bodansky 

I have the "original" Metropolitan Opera  April 15th 1938 Parsifal recording
re-formatted from broadcast acetates to audiocassettes [3
C-90s on high output Maxel brand].  With the cast of Melchior, Flagstad and
Schorr and Bodansky conducting, the level of echt Wagner performance is
unlikely ever to be matched.

I had been giving copies of them to colleagues, with the admonition that there
are elipses and distortion and other unworldly amorphous clouded sound
problems.

Having seen in Met Opera performances the one and only Melchior in the Parsifal
role and studied at college with the greatest of all Wagner bass baritones,
Friedrich Schorr, I can highly recommend even this ghost-like phantom, which
also boasts Flagstad as a souvenir whiff of great Wagner music-making.

Although I do not have the MYTO, have not heard it, it could not be worse than
the "quality" of my audiocassettes.

Kenneth Bennett Lane
Wagnerian romantischer heldentenor
Director, The Festspielhaus of Boonton
[Training for the Wagner roles]
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