In Reply to: Charles Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Planets? posted by mbnx01 on July 14, 2016 at 16:14:19:
The Telarc version to have is the Paavo Jarvi one with the Cincinnati Orch. This was judged the best version available currently in an almost forensic comparison with the demands of the score against all others by David Owen-Norris last year on BBC Radio 3's " Building a Library" feature. A particularly interesting choice as us Brits are not always enthusiastic about foreign perfomances of our music. I have a copy and it is superb.I also have the Dutoit but have not yet played it (it being part of a huge box set of Dutoit's recording career with Decca so I just haven't reached it yet). I will give it an airing tomorrow - local time heading towards 02:00 right now. If it's a clunker I will let you know but I think he is reliably good , it's just that the Jarvi is special.
Edits: 07/14/16
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- RE: Charles Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Planets? - PAR 17:26:33 07/14/16 (9)
- There's a THIRD Telarc? - mbnx01 18:49:58 07/14/16 (8)
- RE: There's a THIRD Telarc? - PAR 00:58:58 07/15/16 (7)
- Disappointed this wasn't released on SACD nt - diw 10:09:41 07/15/16 (0)
- On the Dutoit.. - PAR 08:29:40 07/15/16 (5)
- Funny! I kind of agree - I've never been a big fan of Dutoit, although my wife's an admirer - Chris from Lafayette 11:34:50 07/15/16 (4)
- I am with your wife on this one. - TGR 09:37:43 07/16/16 (2)
- I RENOUNCE MY STATEMENT - MY BAD! - Chris from Lafayette 16:13:41 07/19/16 (0)
- Love his work with Berlioz... - Ivan303 17:10:20 07/16/16 (0)
- +1, as I mentioned above - rbolaw 17:46:43 07/15/16 (0)