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Hamilton, David | January 19, 1970 issue

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This article presents a brief information on the music album Siegfried, by Helga Dernesch, Catherine Gayer and Jess Thomas. This performance shares many of the virtues and deficiencies of the two previous recordings in control and discipline in execution, competence and sometimes more in the vocal performances, and a surface polish achieved at the expense of rhythmic detail. Although remarkably unified in many respects, is nevertheless made up of very diverse elements, the results of the Karajan approach far from consistent, even over the span of this single opera. "Siegfried," presents rather special difficulties in performance, partly because of the high degree of textural specialization in the first two acts.

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SIEGFRIED (Music); MUSIC -- Performance; EMBELLISHMENT (Vocal music); SOUND recordings; OPERA; DERNESCH, Helga; GAYER, Catherine
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