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April 14, 2005
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First the performances. Ronan O’Hora is very much a name from the mid-90’s, when some of his recordings for Tring (especially his Grieg concerto) earned glowing reviews. He plays well enough here, but this isn’t an out and out recommendation, maybe because the competition is just so stiff.
The C ... more |
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April 14, 2005
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The Figaro overture blares out of your speakers with a shrillness that can only be tamed by a drastic twisting (down) of the volume control. Thereafter things are much better, with the sound still being a little too shrill and slightly glassy, but acceptable. The soundstaging in surround is quite ... more |
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April 14, 2005
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What a find,- easily the best of the RPO discs I’ve heard so far and a performance which doesn’t deserve to have fallen from the catalogues in the first place. For those who don’t know this (almost ubiquitous) work, it was written in soviet-era Poland in 1975s and is characterised as a Symphony of ... more |
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March 28, 2005
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Sorry to disagree with LC, more on matters of personal taste than anything else. For me this disc was a disappointment. Farinelli was not only the god of the big, florid (and often meaningless) aria but he was highly regarded for the purity of his singing, as per Quantz’s description of ... more |
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February 1, 2005
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I find my own judgement about half way between Akiralx and Daland. Yes, as Daland says, this is a somewhat bitty reading of stops and starts. If you want pulse, turn to Karajan and if you want a supremely analytical approach that yields a different kind of interpretation, try Sinopoli ('99), an ... more |
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