Brewer/Philharmonia/Mackerras | Classical review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonBleeding chunks is what they used to call Wagner concerts of this kind back in the days before complete recordings, when such programmes provided the only way for many people to hear Wagner's music. Today, an evening of highlights ripped from the hearts of Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Götterdämmerung is not for the purist. The lack of theatrical context and the orchestrally dominated sound balance take getting used to, even in the expert hands of Charle...

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