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Subject: Re: Valkyrie recordings
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From: Ken Sherrill <[e-mail]>
Date: Thursday, 31 Dec 1992 14:13:01 EST
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Jon Conrad has his Kens mixed up. I very much like Jon Vickers' Siegmund. BTW,
at last year's AGMA Pension Fund fund-raiser, the late Stanley Levine showed a
remarkable videotape he had made from the wings of Vickers and Nilsson in the
Act I duet. The sword misbehaves, but Vickers carries on admirably.

For the record, however, my favorite Act I Siegmund is Ramon Vinay, who sings
brilliantly and also acts persuasively with the voice. He actually SOUNDS like
an exhausted hero in his entrance. And Regina Resnik's Sieglinde conveys a le-
vel of neurosis unequalled, even by Leonie Rysanek.

I ought to be a little more controversial on New Year's Eve, so let me add that
 I do not like Regine Crespin's Sieglinde. She strikes me as rythmically sloppy
and a generally coarse musician who does not create much of a character. She
emits very pleasant and very loud sounds on the Solti recording but, to my
taste, is no match for Bohm's Rysanek, Krauss' Resnik, or any other of a large
number of Sieglindes, including Norman and Studer.