@ShawDAMAN I thought the same thing. Any slower and it would have been the only "Fidelio" I've ever known to have to be released on 3 CDs instead of 2.
great to hear all these anecdotes... particularly behind that very-good-but-slow-as-death Knappertsbusch Fidelio :P if I understand him, he was originally going to do it even slower...? wow.
@ShawDAMAN I thought the same thing. Any slower and it would have been the only "Fidelio" I've ever known to have to be released on 3 CDs instead of 2.
I would love to hear Peerce singing wintersturme etc. I suppose no such recording has surfaced...?
great to hear all these anecdotes... particularly behind that very-good-but-slow-as-death Knappertsbusch Fidelio :P if I understand him, he was originally going to do it even slower...? wow.