Post by Jonty December 27, 2007 (31 of 34)
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This recording will be chosen as the BBC CD Review Building a Library recommendation this Saturday the 29th, according to the BBC Radio 3 web site.
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This recording has stunning sonics but the Saint-Saens performance has terrible tempos, thanks to the idiotic conducting of Eschenbach... The Poulenc is also afflicted by such horrible tempo choices...
For a great recording and performance of the Poulenc, check the new Poulenc Concerto disc I just reviewed.
The original recording of the Biggs/Ormandy premiere recording of the Toccata Festiva, which is quite good on the Ondine disc, has been reissued on a CBS/Sony RBCD of Barber rarities. I got it from Amazon... Biggs rewrites a section of the keyboard part as his arthritic fingers could not play it. Still, it is a great recording of the then new Aeolian Skinner pipe organ in the old Academy or Music in Philadelphia...
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Svetlanov's live 1998 recording on Weitblick is significantly slower than even this one (43 minutes!), and it works very well on its own terms.
The tempo in Philadelphia was not the problem here.
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Post by hiredfox June 30, 2015 (34 of 34)
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David Alt said:
Svetlanov's live 1998 recording on Weitblick is significantly slower than even this one (43 minutes!), and it works very well on its own terms.
The tempo in Philadelphia was not the problem here.
This reply, five years in the making must be something of a record, a slow tempo indeed! You are right of course.
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