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I am a sucker for beautiful sonorities like these: Lyadov's late 19th/early 20th century musical impressionism, the sense of something floating, shimmering in the hazy distance, imparted by ethereal strings, so serene. This is magical, cranial movie music, and it's been playing in my head as well as late night on the stereo.
I have a Chandos CD of Jarvi from the late 80's which includes The Firebird, and, while the performance seems ideal, there is an artifact of early digital in the form of slightly wiry string tones. Do you have a favorite to recommend, an equal performance in more modern sound?
Peace,
Tom E
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An unlikely candidate, perhaps, but I'm going to suggest it anyway: try George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra on Sony! Obviously the sound is hardly "more modern" than the Chandos, but you may actually find it more listenable. (Some of those early digital Chandos recordings haven't aged well.) When I listen to this recording I never find the sound wanting. Add Cleveland's legendary playing and Szell's rapt focus, and you have a thoroughly engaging experience. That's my experience with this recording; yours may differ, of course.
They sound awful! The very embodiment of electronic digital haze. Really strong electronic digital haze. Hard to take.
Made me bug-eyed. Recently picked up the digital Lp and it's glassy and garish.
Too bad, too: the Oui on Reference Recordings is a big yawn.
Like the performance, though haven't listened to it in a while. I also liked the sound back then. Worse system back then, though. Ahh, maybe we should all just go back to phonographs.
Metamorphosen (sp) which is a set of variations for orchestra and it delivers . There's one other performance on sacd but sound is just as harsh.
I've got that very same CD and I love it.
I love The Enchanted Lake. What an excellent piece. And, I love Jarvi's Firebird. Whatever Sq issues there may be, at least on my gear, it sounds better than the average electronic digitally hazy Chandos sound [and boy, that really bothers me on some of their other early recordings]. And the dynamic range is awesome. When that FFF hits, it really hits.
I have both Chandos 1989 recording and the new BIS SACD of Lyadov's Enchanted Lake.
If you like this music you will also enjoy several other Russian tone poems, all by Glazunov, "The Sea" op28 and "Spring" op34, I have them both on early Chandos CD's conducted by Neeme Jarvi, these series along with all early Chandos CD's had a very bright sound, "digital haze", but still not too bad if played on tube equipment.
My all time favorite Russian tone poem is Glazunov "Finnish Fantasy" op88, I have the version on Melody/Angel LP conducted by Yevgeny Svetlanov, beautiful atmospheric reading, I hope that Neeme Jarvi would do us all a favor and produce a modern recording of this forgotten beauty, there is another version of this work on Naxos, a spectacularly boring performance with a sound quality to match.
Vahe
Yeah - I love that piece too. And I also have the Jarvi/Chandos recording you refer to - I always thought of it as pretty lush and never had a problem with the SQ. However, there's a later Chandos recording from about 10 years later with Sinaisky:
. . . and, if you're in to downloads, you might be able to find a 24-bit download of this recording.
There's also a SACD on BIS with Litton and the Bergen PO:
Caveat: I have not heard either of these recordings. I'm just going by other Sinaisky/BBC/Chandos and Litton/Bergen/BIS recordings which I've heard.
I like the Sinaisky CD quite a lot. It sounds great on my pitiful two channel stereo system.
I wish Lyadov had composed more. I know nothing of his keyboard music except for a couple of pieces I just listened to on YT.
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I hear you, Pat. BTW, there is a recording of Liadov's complete piano works:
I have it, and it's well played IMHO. Much of the music is derivative of Chopin (a bit like early Scriabin, but perhaps even more conservative). At a later point, Liadov's piano music seemed to go through a transformation, again, very similar to Scriabin's middle period, although there's not nearly as much in this style. Despite the derivative qualities of Liadov's piano music. I still like like it, but I think the difficulty of many of the works inhibit general adoption on concert programs:
-not the MOST difficult, but, still, not so easy!
Lyadov was supposed to write the Firebird.
When he didn't, it fell to Stravinsky, and the rest, as they say, is History....
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