Patchwork Maid of Orleans (Reaction to the Dearth of Recordings
complaint about Tchaikovsky's Opera)
I transferred the Arkipova to CD but was not terribly pleased with the
sound. I was almost completely satisfied with my transfer to CD of the DVD
performance with Nina Rautio and company. Of course there are the cuts. So
I preserved the "Rautio" as much as possible, stuck in other recordings of
the Dances which I was completely annoyed to find were missing in the DVD.
I needed just one little dance from the "Arkipova" as the rest were
recorded in more opulent sound, the little one I included was not found on
the modern CD. (with Sir Colon Davis) I used the "Arkipova" to fill in any
cuts that I couldn't fill with a modern CD recording; including the
extended organ riffs in the Coronation act.
I created a Frankenstein's Monster, but it is pretty satisfactory. Some
of the music is just hauntingly beautiful, especially all references to
the music sung to Joan by the Heavenly messenger
Joseph Ahern
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