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Since Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos opened last Thursday, I have not been able to get it out of my head. I was in the opera shop and wanted to get an opinion of the best recording. Here is what Anthony has to say:
The Sinopoli recording is a modern recording. It has Deborah Voigt, Natalie Dessay, Annie Sophie von Otter, and Ben Hepner.
It may be good, but there is also a more "historic" recording available. This is the Karajan recording. Besides having the conducting of Karajan on this recording, listeners are able to hear the amazing voices of past opera superstars: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, Rita Streich, Rudolf Schock, and Hermann Prey.
I currently have the former recording and find it enjoyable, but now intend to get the Karajan recording, so as to better educate myself in the past of opera.
It's not just about the voices, Struss had died only a few years before. These people knew and understood the true Strauss style with no degree of seperation. That makes it wildly important.
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