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Listening to Wagner's "Siegfried" on vinyl.
Not crazy about the sound quality. I always found vinyl enthusiasts to be......eccentric...
But I have to get up and change the disc, or turn it over, every 25 minutes or so.
With opera on CD, and with my CD-changing carousel, I can listen to the whole thing uninterrupted.
But as an exercise in comparative art appreciation, it's terrific.
Wilhelm Furtwangler was a gifted conductor. This recording (live from La Scala in 1951) is well-paced. But the musicians must have all been Italian. The poor German must have felt like he was herding cats...