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| 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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