After listening to Gaff's 6th, I really wasn't convinced that the conductor had a feel for Prokofiev's sound world. ( Too soft-edged, colors not bold enough, etc.)
His 5th seems to be a different story, at least in the 1st mov't: Dark, propulsive, and paced just right, though Gaffigan takes the remarkable ending at speed, (you can clearly feel the 3-beat). I prefer the section be treated more as an event in itself, overall coherence be damned. The tam tam in these pages is roaring and weighty (as opposed to sharp and shrill) and hits you in the gut like it should. The Netherlands Radio Symphony percussionists purchased the my kind of bass drum: deep and resounding. Still, I didn't get tingles, as I do with (yes) Previn/LA Phil, or his older EMI. Or Maazel's sleeper in Cleveland.
Recorded sound is wonderful, if a touch diffuse. BIS is keeping the microphone sweet spot a secret. I'll probably download the other three mov'ts.
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Topic - Against my better judgement, I downloaded Gaffigan's Prokofiev 5th, 1st mov't. Not bad. - jdaniel@jps.net 12:36:55 04/07/17 (22)
- A vote for Cleveland/Szell Prok 5 - pbarach 14:34:04 04/08/17 (3)
- Have you heard Slatkin/ St. Louis, on RCA? - Sigmund 09:38:59 04/09/17 (2)
- One of my first CDs! Nt - jdaniel@jps.net 09:48:41 04/09/17 (0)
- RE: Have you heard Slatkin/ St. Louis, on RCA? - pbarach 09:46:49 04/09/17 (0)
- Actually, your previous judgement was defective! ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 19:04:05 04/07/17 (6)
- Isn't the Previn/LA 5th on Philips? - Doktor Brahms 09:33:01 04/08/17 (4)
- You're right - sorry, I was thinking of the Alexander Nevsky recording [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 13:59:08 04/08/17 (2)
- Aha! You too with the senioritis. - rbolaw 12:34:40 04/09/17 (1)
- Yup - I should have manually checked! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 01:00:20 04/10/17 (0)
- Si - jdaniel@jps.net 10:34:37 04/08/17 (0)
- The Gaff 6th? If so... - jdaniel@jps.net 08:58:13 04/08/17 (0)
- A great recording.... - Ivan303 18:03:43 04/07/17 (2)
- Wait - I thought a Raspberry Pi IS a computer? - Chris from Lafayette 18:19:22 04/07/17 (1)
- Not much of one... - Ivan303 19:17:06 04/07/17 (0)
- From which site? - Jim Treanor 13:37:54 04/07/17 (7)
- Native DSD.com nt - jdaniel@jps.net 13:40:57 04/07/17 (6)
- The Spirit of Turtle site has it in up to DSD256 or DXD if you prefer... - Russell 11:05:08 04/08/17 (4)
- Wow! But 64 is good enough for me. : ) nt - jdaniel@jps.net 11:20:33 04/08/17 (3)
- Agreed re this recording. -nt - Jim Treanor 14:28:47 04/08/17 (2)
- How was the rest? - jdaniel@jps.net 19:10:40 04/09/17 (1)
- RE: How was the rest? - Russell 01:36:35 04/10/17 (0)
- Thanks, jd. -nt - Jim Treanor 13:45:37 04/07/17 (0)