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Posted by Ralph Moore on October 25, 2025, 12:09 pm, in reply to "Vashegyi's Rameau Castor et Pollux"
Thanks, Evan; I did not have access to those earlier recordings and to be honest reviewing this latest was something of a venture into largely unknown territory for me. However, there are some previous comments and reviews on MWI. Kirk McElhearn says in 2015 "Nicolas Harnoncourt has the oldest recording here, the 1972 Castor et Pollux, whose sound is very thin and lacking depth; some of the singers are totally wrong for this kind of music." Jonathan Woolf warmly reviews a Naxos issue here: https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/mar04/Rameau_Castor.htm
Brian Wilson mentions some versions in his review of a DVD: https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/Feb09/Rameau_Castor_oa0999d.htm
I have not been able to find a review of the Christie recording on MWI - but it features some singers not at all to my taste.... 
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Thanks to Ralph Moore for his helpful review of this recording. Does anyone have any idea how it compares to the two earlier recordings of the same 1737 form of the work (Harnoncourt 1972 and Christie 1992)? Would someone who has those gain anything significant by buying this one?
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Vashegyi's Rameau Castor et Pollux - Evan Blackmore October 24, 2025, 10:41 pm
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