CD Decca Strauss - Elektra ( Solti - Nilsson, Resnik ) CD + BluRay Audio

inregistrare din 1967

Interpreteaza:

Birgit Nilsson - Elektra
Regina Resnik - Klytamnestra
Marie Collier - Chrysothemis
Gerhard Stolze - Aegisth
Tom Krause - Orest

Wiener Philharmoniker ( dirijor Georg Solti )

Presented on 2CDs + High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc containing the complete opera in 24-Bit audio.


Salome and Elektra, of course, were two of the greatest vehicles for Birgit Nilsson, and her Elektra remains unsurpassed–never mind the mind-boggling playing of the Vienna Philharmonic.

– ClassicsToday

This reissue of the Decca Elektra originally released in 1967 is presumably designed at least in part to extend the shelf life of a recording that would otherwise be about to lose its copyright protection and be open to ‘pirate’ remasterings. It also forms part of a handsomely packaged collection of some of Decca’s superlative catalogue of operas from the period including Karajan’s Bohème and Tosca, Sutherland’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Rigoletto, and Solti’s Salome and Aida as well as this Elektra, all of them well worthy of this respectful treatment including remastering at 24-bit 96kHz and Blu-Ray audio. The back of the hardback book states that this is a “limited edition” but, unlike the luxurious edition of the Solti Ring produced some years ago, there is no number of issues specified or inserted on the packaging.

John Culshaw, the producer of this recording, never reached this point in his career when writing his autobiography Putting the Record Straight, left unfinished at the time of his death; but Elektra was one of the last of the series of famous Decca ‘sonicstage’ blockbuster productions that he mounted during his years in charge of the company’s programme in Vienna.