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| What about Peter Hofmann? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 08:56 pm EDT 07/30/20 | |
| In reply to: Bernstein did not want to hear Carreras sing Tony - AlanScott 07:53 pm EDT 07/29/20 | |
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| Thanks for all of that info, Alan, but you didn't mention Peter Hofmann. I'm sure I've read that he was supposed to sing Tony in that DG recording of WSS, but then (obviously) it didn't work out, for some reason I don't recall. Have you never heard/read that? I've heard Hofmann sing from WSS on another recording conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, and at least he was able to sing the part without (much of) an accent. | |
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| re: What about Peter Hofmann? | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 06:51 pm EDT 07/31/20 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:50 pm EDT 07/31/20 | |
| In reply to: What about Peter Hofmann? - Michael_Portantiere 08:56 pm EDT 07/30/20 | |
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| I don't recall ever having read that Hofmann, who had recorded Tristan with Bernstein a couple of years earlier, was supposed to sing Tony, and a quickish search didn't bring up anything, which doesn't mean it wasn't considered. That Bernstein recording with Hofmann and his then-wife, Deborah Sasson, came out around the same time that the Bernstein-DG WSS recording was issued. At least one critic reviewed the two of them together. |
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| re: What about Peter Hofmann? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 10:08 pm EDT 07/31/20 | |
| In reply to: re: What about Peter Hofmann? - AlanScott 06:50 pm EDT 07/31/20 | |
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| Thanks, Alan. I don't recall where I read that Hofmann was to have done the Bernstein-conducted WSS, so maybe my memory is just faulty -- of, if anyone did write that anywhere, maybe they were just confused by the other recording. On the other hand: If it IS true that Hofmann was almost signed, or at least considered, for the Bernstein-conducted WSS but wound up on that other recording instead, I suppose it's possible that was due to the fact that the recordings were on different labels? |
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| re: What about Peter Hofmann? | |
| Posted by: larry13 09:19 pm EDT 07/31/20 | |
| In reply to: re: What about Peter Hofmann? - AlanScott 06:50 pm EDT 07/31/20 | |
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| I had to look up Deborah Sasson, whom I'd never heard of. Yes, she was once married to Hofmann but it is Hildegard Behrens who recorded Isolde with him and Bernstein. | |
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| re: What about Peter Hofmann? | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 09:53 pm EDT 07/31/20 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:52 pm EDT 07/31/20 | |
| In reply to: re: What about Peter Hofmann? - larry13 09:19 pm EDT 07/31/20 | |
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| I know that Hildegard Behrens was Isolde on the Bernstein-conducted Tristan und Isolde. In the post to which I responded, Michael wrote this: "I've heard Hofmann sing from WSS on another recording conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, and at least he was able to sing the part without (much of) an accent." I replied partly with: “That Bernstein recording with Hofmann and his then-wife, Deborah Sasson, came out around the same time that the Bernstein-DG WSS recording was issued. At least one critic reviewed the two of them together.” The recording listed and described on the linked page is the one that I meant when I mentioned “That Bernstein recording.” That is the recording to which Michael was referring. The Bernstein Tristan und Isolde was released around September 1983. The Bernstein-conducted WSS and the Tilson Thomas-Hofmann-Sasson Bernstein on Broadway were both released around March-April 1985, which was why at least one critic reviewed them together. |
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