Tony, I agree completely about the Norns' scene in the Keilberth: it really is gripping (I suppose that's them holding onto the rope?
). A first-class group of singers, too.
Like you, I very much enjoyed Deathridge's take on
Götterdämmerung: informed, witty, astute and sensitive. Every example he played was justified, and the logic in his selections was impeccable. Certainly the best of the four programmes. The only slight criticism is that he's obviously very sensitive to stage noises: often I find they enhance the sense of involvement in a way that studio recordings rarely do. I guess some people do find them a distraction and even annoyance, but I never have.
I'd post more now, but am off round to tonybob's,* where we'll no doubt mull these things over before I try to persuade him that he really should listen to more Birtwistle.
*Yikes! Do I take slippers? I've never been round there before. 
