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Collectible : Berlioz: Les troyens (Abridged)
Berlioz: Les troyens (Abridged)from: Opera D'oro Release Date May 06, 2003 Hardly anything is abridged. Mostly just a few of the dances are gone. However, it is conducted much more quickly than I am used to--I learned the opera on the Colin Davis/Vickers version. That is still my first choice, it has much better sound, and it makes more of a few of the big moments (which Pretre takes too fast sometimes). Pretre's fast pacing actually works really well for some of the music, though. The quicker tempi give some more shape to certain moments that Davis's slower speeds can make to seem slack and un-rhythmic. Another really good reason to have this version is Gedda. His Enee is much more in the lighter-voiced French style, and makes a good contrast with Vickers' more Wagnerian approach. This is probably more the ... Read More: |
