As always a pleasure to read, in spite of my own admiration for Gedda. Just two footnotes:
- Munch 1954 on RCA: the final five minutes of an experimental stereo recording survived and were issued on CD in 1996 ("The Age of Living Stereo", 09026-68524-2) with other early and mostly unissued stereo takes. Playing it after my LPs makes me regret even more that the whole work was not recorded in stereo.
- CRQ Editions (CD 526) is a professionally remastered stereo recording of a performance in Minneapolis 17 March 1967 which can be downloaded from their site. It is a good complement even if not a general recommendation, as the conductor and singers are not on any among the well-known recordings you discuss: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski; Marilyn Horne, Cesare Valletti, Gérard Souzay, Lenus Carlson. Everyone is excellent, even Souzay who at this time was less smooth than earlier and is not the weighty voice we wish for. But he compensates by creating a real personlity.
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