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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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The "People's" theme, which opens the Peterloo Overture is quite beautiful, especially when reprized by full strings towards the end; I can't imagine a Peasant man anywhere not shedding a tear.
Headbangers will love percussion-heave midsection, Arnold tipping his hat to Strauss' "Hero Goes to War" in Heldenleben?
Right off the bat, you'll be thrilled by the recording quality--huge, roomy sound stage, deep bass, and a sense of hall space even in the quiet material.
That said, the one disappointment involves those massed strings which take up the lyrical "People's theme": the perspective seems to suddenly change and said strings are very harsh and dry. A pity.
Still, Peterloo is worth a few bucks for the download. Likely spectacular in surround. Me? I'll wait for Warner/EMI to remaster Arnold and Groves' old recordings of the 2nd and 5th symphonies, along with the above-mentioned Peterloo.
But in the end, I did indeed fulfill my promise to support living musicians!
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Topic - Malcolm Arnold's "Peterloo" Overture: fun music, based upon rather sad events - jdaniel@jps.net 20:38:44 11/10/16 (15)
- Support Living Musicians? The Oldmkvi Foundation wants to hear from you! - oldmkvi 13:29:43 11/11/16 (0)
- Of course I applaud your support of living musicians. But....... - Rick W 09:03:27 11/11/16 (1)
- Hopefully the living bean counters at Warner/EMI are listening - jdaniel@jps.net 09:51:07 11/11/16 (0)
- RE: Malcolm Arnold's "Peterloo" Overture: fun music, based upon rather sad events - Chris from Lafayette 00:37:31 11/11/16 (11)
- "Change of perspective" maybe not right words - jdaniel@jps.net 07:53:11 11/11/16 (9)
- RE: "Change of perspective" maybe not right words - PAR 03:55:56 11/12/16 (8)
- PS: Wow, you have the dCS? Now I really feel reassured! : ) nt - jdaniel@jps.net 07:25:54 11/12/16 (6)
- RE: PS: Wow, you have the dCS? Now I really feel reassured! : ) nt - PAR 10:18:03 11/12/16 (5)
- RE: PS: Wow, you have the dCS? Now I really feel reassured! : ) nt - jdaniel@jps.net 11:37:27 11/12/16 (4)
- RE: PS: Wow, you have the dCS? Now I really feel reassured! : ) nt - PAR 13:24:08 11/12/16 (3)
- I don't know the Silvestri unfortunately, when collecting lp's my sights were set for the Barbirolli - jdaniel@jps.net 08:39:54 11/13/16 (2)
- RE: I don't know the Silvestri unfortunately, when collecting lp's my sights were set for the Barbirolli - PAR 09:31:22 11/13/16 (1)
- Thanks, looks like he recorded some very interesting stuff. nt - jdaniel@jps.net 16:37:43 11/13/16 (0)
- Thanks, that really good to know. I think digital has come a long way with massed strings though - jdaniel@jps.net 07:23:27 11/12/16 (0)
- RE: Malcolm Arnold's "Peterloo" Overture: fun music, based upon rather sad events - PAR 02:08:57 11/11/16 (0)
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