MENDELSSOHN • WAGNER

Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos 4 & 5; Wagner: Parsifal* – Prelude to Act I; Good Friday Music

NBC Symphony Orchestra; *London Symphony Orchestra/arturo Toscanini

Praga Digitals PRD/DSD 350128 (hybrid CD/SACD) (1935-54) 78:54 mins

Crisp, sharply focused, high-energyperformances, at times thrilling, at others antiseptic. The slow movement of the Mendelssohn

Italian and the Parsifal Prelude are thoroughly un-atmospheric.