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I'm listening this evening to Saint-Saens: Symphony No.3 "Organ" Ormandy conducting and Michael Murray at the organ. Telarc embraced the digital format from their beginning and knew how to effectively work its musical magic. First, let's set up our equipment in a church's sanctuary. Then lets be sure our microphione are "state of the art" and well placed. Then let's find a world class orchestra (Philadelphia Orchestra) and organist (Michael Murray) and conductor (Eugene Ormandy) to play this magnificent piece of music. Then I get to play it back through my 21st century vacuum tube based music system. The results are magnificent sound that captures the moment. Robert Woods and Jack Renner had the vision and competence to bring this about. I'm thankful.
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I have a recollection that there were many complaints about the original release of the Telarc Saint-Saens LP. Apparently many home systems of the era couldn't correctly resolve the direct vs. reverb sound and the result for some was an unpleasant overly reverberant sound.
IIRC Telarc re-mastered the LP removing some of the reverb.
Anyone else remember talk about the original release?
Are you sure you're not thinking of the 1812 Overture. The cannon shots can make tonearms bounce! And in my case send dogs running up the stairs to hide.
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Do you know this one? If so, I'm looking forward to your opinion.
I just think it's brilliant... shocking... Recorded in a big church around where I live.
(Mine is the version pressed in Holland, if there are any others.)
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Decca/Lindon had a winning combination of Dutoit-Great Church Acoustic-Ravel and took full advantage of it. The CDs had very short playing times per disk and very little attention to good production. For example, the Daphnis and Chloe CD had but one track for entire ballet. The LP, at least, divided it into two or three.
St. Eustache, where this was recorded is an excellent venue.
I used to go to see the MSO often when I lived in Montreal. I saw them with Trevor Pinnock playing harpsichord in Notre Dame on one occasion. They were a very good orchestra back then.
If I recall correctly from the reviews - or perhaps from how those reviews were hyped to us the Québécois public, since I didn't really read the specialized press myself - the OSM under Dutoit was world class.
The breadth and size of their London catalogue (LPs & CDs) in the 80s indicate that too, it seems to me.
I do. And it's a wonderful recording that doe true justice to the compositions.
Yeah I believe so.
The dynamic range is almost "too much" in "Alborada"...
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