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Posted by Martin Walker on November 16, 2006, 2:22 pm
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I wonder what the basis is for the category "well known" in Jonathan Woolf's highly informed review: he says "Some are well known - Briesemeister, Erb, Jadlowker – whilst others much less so; Fritz Trostorff, Franz Xaver Battisti and Benno Haberl for example. I found Briesemeister, commanding if rather bleaty in his extract from Siegfried in 1908. Knote, less well known" etc. I for one have never heard of Briesemeister, who is also not mentioned by Steane in The Grand Tradition, whereas Knote is, Sembach too - and while Steane does not mention Jörn, I have heard a recording of the latter. Preiser also has a Heldentenöre CD with singers like Heinrich Hensel, of whom they used to have a complete CD - the reason, I suppose, that they left him off this one. I make these remarks not in order to carp - I am genuinely interested in what Jonathan knows upon this subject.

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Message Thread: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Nov06/Wagner_Preiser89940.htm - Martin Walker November 16, 2006, 2:22 pm Re: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Nov06/Wagner_Preiser89940.htm - Jonathan Woolf November 18, 2006, 1:25 pm Re: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Nov06/Wagner_Preiser89940.htm - Martin Walker November 21, 2006, 12:05 pm Re: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Nov06/Wagner_Preiser89940.htm - Paul Serotsky November 22, 2006, 12:17 pm « Back to thread

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