On Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 12:59:11 AM UTC-4, Andrew T. Kay wrote:

David Gable wrote:
[...]

For years I avoided anything conducted by
Knappertsbusch because of his reputation in some quarters as a slow and >ponderous conductor who was also inordinately sloppy The fact is his >Parsifal's may be slow,

They're not really, unless the comparison is to Boulez. The famous, exalted one
with Jess Thomas and Hans Hotter (I've never found it the be-all and end-all, myself, but never mind) is actually faster (250:12) than the two stereo versions that are perhaps most often recommended alongside it, Solti (260:10) and Karajan/DG (255:58).

--Todd K

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