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In Reply to: RE: Edvard Grieg Complete Symphonic Works posted by ahendler on August 23, 2015 at 16:04:07
Do you all like these better than the Bis set?
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I have seldom found any newer BIS recording truly representative of a large body of instruments in a real space. There always seems to be something "off" about the size and proportion or location of instruments. Some of them are pretty bad: Martin Frost's earlier Mozart comes to mind, with a fluent if somewhat too sweet performance by a clarinet ridiculously larger and louder than the entire orchestra. But even the best have not convinced me I was listening to real instruments. The Vanska Beethoven was not nearly as good as some made it out to be; as recording and performance I think it rises above mediocre but not much higher. I have some chamber and solo works on BIS, and those fare better. Their older recordings might actually be better than newer hi-rez stuff, and perhaps it's because they were better at stereo than they are at surround, or better at stereo than they are at mixing surround into stereo.
There is one disc in the BIS Grieg series that I really like: Norwegian Dances, Lyric Suite, Symphonic Dances. It is the best BIS recording I've heard, out of perhaps twenty.
This Audite recording (vol 3) is better than any BIS I've heard, and probably better than almost anything on any label. It is just shockingly good, well worth duplicating what you already have.
Peace,
Tom E
We must have very similar tastes, musical priorties and/or listening set ups because I hear things almost exactly the same as you do (with regard to all the recordings that you have mentioned).
If you like these Audite Grieg SACDs, then you will also love the spectacular sonics on this Simax recording of Norwegian Composers (including Grieg's Piano Concerto). The recording sounds overwhelmingly good, unbelievably realistic (like the best seat in the concert hall), simply stunning and is a fitting companion to the Audite discs. We are being spoiled for choice with Grieg recordings.
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