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HANDEL: Salomo.(Review)
HANDEL: Salomo
[] Schiml, Werner, Bundschuh, Termer, Suske; Buchner, Polster, Vogt; Berlin Radio Chorus, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rogner. 1981. Sung in German. Text and translation (original English). Berlin Classics Z1892B (3) (Koch, dist.)
Dear music-lovers, please do not listen to this recording. Certainly there are folks (many of them German conductors) for whom the early-music movement and issues of historical authenticity hold no interest, and there are plenty of performances and recordings to satisfy them. Application of a faulty aesthetic is one thing, but boring and ugly playing is quite another, whether Handel or Bruckner is the victim. Considering the utterly outdated performance style, the absence of anyone of historical importance or interest among the performers, and the availability of two excellent recordings of Solomon with its original English text, why has this twenty-year-old account (in German, as Salomo) been issued now? Perhaps a German version in an old-fashioned musical delivery may be of some historical interest as a stepping-stone to current Handel style, but I weep for anyone whose first approach to this magnificent and powerful oratorio is such a graceless recording.
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