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...Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, five records). Wagner's last and most difficult music drama has not had a really satisfying recording-until now. Hofmann makes Parsifal both strong and guileless, the splendid Van Dam is an anguished Amfortas, and Nimsgern is an evil, but not inhuman Klingsor. Only Vejzovic, a screechy Kundry, is weak. The real stars are Karajan and his Berliners, who capture the score's glowing spirituality and black magic in a luminous performance...
...melody become genuinely lyrical, as that term is conventionally understood. Debussy's concern for the melody and rhythm of speech, for themes which are insinuating rather than distinctive, for chamber orchestration like evanescent jewelry, and for an architecture of colors, suggest his profound differences with "the old ghost of Klingsor, alias Richard Wagner...
...program for tonight follows: "Le Tombeau de Couperin," suite for orchestra Ravel Sarabande and Dance Orchestrated by Ravel Debussy Rapsodi Espagnole Ravel "Scheherazade," three poems for voice and orchestra, to the verses of Tristan Klingsor: Ravel I. "Asia" II. "The Enchanted Flute" III. "The Indifferent One" "La Valse," a choreographic poem Ravel
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