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I've heard only one of the recordings on your list

Posted by Chris from Lafayette (A) on November 22, 2020 at 11:54:11

In Reply to: Nice Classical Sale at Qobuz, Here are My Selections, Please Comment if You're Familiar with Any. posted by jdaniel@jps.net on November 22, 2020 at 10:15:47:

That would be the Slatkin/Lyon Berlioz Harold in Italy, with babe violist, Lisa Berthaud. I was also interested in that recording because of its release as a 24/96 MCh blu-ray audio disc.



Overall, I was quite unhappy with what I heard from Slatkin and his Lyon orchestra when he was their music director (based on the recordings they did for Naxos). The energy in the performances seemed to ebb so low as to be soporific. Almost all of Slatkin's other recordings I've heard seem more vital than the ones he did in Lyon.

However, maybe Lisa got his juices going in this Harold in Italy recording, becuase it's definitely a cut above the quality of the other work he was doing at that time. And Lisa's own playing is entirely beyond reproach. All the same, my favorite Harold in Italy is a real "under the radar" dark horse, in "plain old CD" (gasp!) resolution:



Another little known great performance of the work is the in-concert rendition by another babe violist (at least at the time the performance was recorded), Cynthia ("Cindy") Phelps, with Maazel and the NYPO. This one used to be available on the iTunes music store as well as DG's own site. I don't know what its availability is now.

BTW, that Poulenc work is "Les biches", not "Les Bitches". ;-)

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