SA-CD.net - Eybler: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

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Post by Windsurfer January 31, 2007 (1 of 2)

I've had this disc for sometime and true to Madisonears' assessment, it doesn't get played much (on the other hand neither do some that I know are definitely worthy of repetitious play). So until I found myself humming some of the tunes (much to my wife's distress), I would have said Madisonears' review was spot on. But since I find some of these passages going round in my head months after playing the thing, I want to suggest that there may be more to it than Madisonears allows. Note that I said "may be more", I personally, after all that, cannot say I am not 100% sure.

I guess that I am saying my appreciation of Eybler came not while listening, but after the fact as I remembered listening! Strange!

Post by Windsurfer February 5, 2007 (2 of 2)

Here I reply to my own posting. After listening to this over again, I have to say while the sound is very nice there are long empty reaches between those charming passages I alluded to. Moreover some may listen to this and say "what charming passages?" I would not have a ready answer. They are sort of marginal. It would have been ever so much nicer had CPO recorded, say, Arriaga instead.