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In Reply to: RE: Opinions of the cognoscenti ? posted by LtMandella on January 30, 2021 at 09:16:58
I hadn't heard it because, although I love the Rach Sym1 and the Symphonic Dances, I already have many good recordings including several in MCH. But I just played it and find it superfluous. The performance is workman-like and the sound quality barely acceptable.Let me suggest something vastly more entertaining from a surprising source.
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In my experience, EMI captured the best string sound overall. I still enjoy Ormandy's Bartok Mandarin/MSPC from '79. Muti took over soon after.
Denon recorded Ormandy performing Tchaikovsky 5, at the dawning of the CD era, and Telarc's Saint Saens 3rd caught the Philly strings at their very silkiest.
DGG did a fantastic job recording Garcia's Rodrigo, IMHO. Sorry they couldn't get it together in Philadelphia.
I remember when Harold Lawrence was at my house, we talked about this very recording. ;-)
Ovation magazine. It was a great one, but didn't last very long. It's articles and reviews (not that many in each issue) were excellent. I still have a few copies around the house and enjoy re-reading them.
I now believe I was thinking of Opus Magazine, not Ovation, and you are probably, too. Yes, Opus was started by writers from High Fidelity who quit when that magazine cut its classical music coverage drastically. High Fidelity always had far better coverage of classical than its main rival of the times, Stereo Review, but as rock took over like everywhere else, the suits starting making the inevitable cuts in coverage.Opus only lasted a few years before its owners decided its bottom line wasn't worth continuing with it. Early 80s.
Amazingly, back issues of High Fidelity are available online (ink). Brings back a lot of memories, some of which are back when I drooled over Japanese gear for sale at dirt cheap prices in the PXes I got to occasionally in Viet Nam. Ended up with mainly Sansui gear and a Teac tape deck.
https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/High-Fidelity-Magazine.htm
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CDs, under glass.
Wasn't that "Philadelphia string sound" as much a product of the old Academy of Music? (I attended several concerts there, and loved the acoustics.) I always thought "string sound" was mostly a function of the hall and the balance between the sections..... Unless Philly had a higher percentage of Strads, Amatis, Guarneris, etc., relative to other orchestras.......
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Weren't many of us here (with one notable exception!) raving about Feltz's MCh recording of Gliere's Ilya Mourametz Symphony a couple of years ago? I haven't yet heard his Rachmaninoff First Symphony though - sounds as if I probably need to make some time for it! ;-)
And I still want to hear N-S for myself too, although I'll probably be concentrating more on the Symphonic Dances.
I t was surprising because it was unexpected. In fact, for me, it was the other way around because the Gliere was released more than 2 years after the Rachmaninoff.
. . . has been released even now! ;-)
(And, yes, I searched under Rachmaninov too!)
I received the SACD in 2016.
Rachmaninoff with a 'w' :-)17.07 and free Prime shipping.
Link below:
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The 16/44.1 version on QOBUZ was so 'alive' I have to hear what the SACD sounds like.
Spelling!
Will definitely check it out, thank you.
If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!
so I must have liked it. :-)
That, along with the Petrenko/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic take.
Oh, and the Jurowski/London Phil, the Kitayenko/Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, the Kogan/Moscow State Symphony and the Hughes/Royal Scottish.
That's about it.
Wonder if Sanderling/Leningrad State Philharmonic would be worth a listen
Great piece of music that's hard to mess up, IMNSHO.
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