Most historic RING cycles available on CD today are from such radio broadcasts. Have to ask my friends in Barcelona if they might have it from my performances 1984 there
As not much editing would be possible, and the commercial value be quite low, just a smaller label could produce it as a so called "niche" production. The only thing to block it, are the royalties payable to the artists incl. the orchestra. It requires 50 years that these rights expire. BTW, we never have any assistant in the opera, but we divide Siegfried , Goetterdaemmerung, Trsitan & Meistersinger. ============================================================ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David B. Thompson Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 4:53 AM To: 'Old Horn List' Subject: RE: [Hornlist] seigfried's long call Hans Pizka wrote: >I do not know if they recorded it in Barcelona or Trieste >or Venice (Suitner) or East Berlin. To my knowledge, the Barcelona Liceu Opera has never produced a recording of its Ring productions aside from the regular radio broadcasts. Although the symphony orchestra and the opera orchestra are two completely independent entities and we rarely have much contact with our colleagues across town at the opera, I happen to be collaborating with them at the moment, precisely because they are in the middle of a Ring cycle. I had accepted the invitation as a guest principal figuring I would just do offstage calls as I have done in the past with them, but since one of their principals is choosing to play tuba rather than horn, I have ended up playing first horn in the pit, without an assistant - as is common in the opera orchestras in this neck of the woods. Not something I really needed on top of my regular performing schedule. I have seen no indication that they are planning to record these performances for other than live broadcast use. David B. Thompson Solo Horn, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans.pizka%40t-online.de _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
