I, too, forget how long it is since Amazon chopped the comments section on reviews - at least five or six years, I think - and last month they summarily removed my 4000+ reviews, presumably since I had closed my account with them a year or two previously - I just kept one under another name for the occasional purchase when I can't find something anywhere else. In any case, I had long since transfered my attentions to MusicWeb as a beacon of probity and integrity!
Feel free to email me at ralphmoore87@gmail.com with any chat or questions.
All the best,
Ralph
Hello Ralph
Long time no chat (can't remember when Bezos canned the communication on amazon.co.uk).
Your recommendations and guidance on building my Wagner collection were most excellent.
I don't really have a comment on your topic except that I'm listening to a lot of Italian opera these days - pretty much anyone whose surname ends in i.
It does seem like a lot of Shakespeare is interwoven into much opera..
I found your "“Untouchable” and ”Most Recommendable” Opera Recordings" and I agree with your views on what I have got in my collection so far. The good ones but also the couple of duds I bought without your steer!
Hope you're well and safe.
Very best wishes.
H
Simon Thompson's comment in his review of the Nott symphonic arrangement of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande set me thinking:
"It’s hard to think of any single play that has had a more profound impact on musicians than Pelléas et Mélisande ."
While I don't necessarily disagree with him, I wonder whether Romeo and Juliet might be another candidate, given that Berlioz, Bellini, Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Prokofiev, Bernstein and Nino Rota all found inspiration in it. Shakespeare in general has of course been set to music by so many composers in so many genres.
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