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In Reply to: RE: Wanted to share my renewed enthusiasm for Prokofiev's complete "Cinderella." posted by jdaniel@jps.net on May 03, 2015 at 10:44:00
I really like Previn on EMI. It is digital, but sounds spectacular; lots of detail, warmth and space, realistic. And terrific performance. I agree that it should not play 2nd fiddle to R et J.
"Cinderella love scene equally effective as orgasmic metaphor"
Oh, dear. Does somebody have one of these in the Cinderella story? Only in our sex-drenched culture?
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Off the top of my head, I can think of those horn whoop-whoop-whoops in the opening of Strauss' Rosenkavalier, and the ultra-high up-bowed, solo cello grunts toward the end of Salome.
In Tristan, the repeated "slamming" cello runs right before the lovers get caught.... Wow.
The orchestral Prelude to the third act is right up there with the opening of Rosenkavalier. From the carefully worded notes in the Decca recording:
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