Strauss Salome -2 CD-Blu-ray Audio-

Product Description Birgit Nilsson and Sir Georg Solti's recording of Richard Strauss' opera "Salome" in Decca's Hardback Opera series is a benchmark recording that has been re-mastered into an ultra-high quality 96kHz/24-bit audio masterpiece. Packaged as a hardback book with detailed notes, with the libretto translated into French and English from the original German and photos from the recording sessions the 2 CD + Blu-Ray Audio set is a fitting monument to an epic collaboration. Review “[A] very clear recording of the orchestra … all the detail of the extraordinary scoring, so often obscured in the opera house, can be easily heard throughout … The VPO answer Solti's extreme demands with their most aristocratic playing … Nilsson's account of the title role remains another towering monument to her tireless singing” GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE, 1985 “Nilsson is splendid throughout; she is hard-edged as usual but, on that account, more convincingly wicked...Of this score Solti is a master. He has rarely sounded so abandoned in a recorded performance...Waechter makes a clear, young-sounding Jokanaan.” PENGUIN GUIDE, 2010 EDITION “Forty-four years after its initial release, Decca’s Salome holds a leading position in the discography due to Solti’s visceral conducting, and a strong cast centred on Nilsson’s commanding necrophiliac princess.” BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE, JANUARY 2012