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Music : Holst: The Planets / Elgar: Enigma Variations
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Holst: The Planets / Elgar: Enigma Variations from: EMI Classics List Price: £10.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £4.97 You Save: £6.02 (55%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724356774827 Label: EMI Classics Manufacturer: EMI Classics Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: EMI Classics Release Date: March 11, 2002 Studio: EMI Classics Sales Rank: 393 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - As Holst intended?This version of The Planets has replaced my recent LSO version. Why? Well, the balance between the contributing elements is the best i've heard so far: The bass is thunderous analogue and the high woodwind/strings are like crystal in equal measure. This is a superb achievement and exceptionally important for, 'large orchestra' where Dynamics become a recording engineer's delight or problem depending on how good they are. And these people are the best: Abbey road have done a fantastic job on the remastering of a late 70's classic, although there is one thing they could never tackle: Is this as Holst intended? Bolt was a friend of Holst and was given the opportunity to first conduct the piece; Bolt read and heard the original ... Read More: Rating:  - not impressedThe style of the presentation of the pieces here could be described as majestic although a trifle slow for my taste. The style is in keeping with its time. However I have had a number of versions of both works over the years and the dynamics on this rendition must be the worst. Whoever transfered the music from master tape to CD did not make anywhere near the most of the expanded dynamic capabilities available today. I do not mean that the bass should destroy buildings a mile distant or that the treble should cause bats to explode in mid air. But the bass was mushy and upper registers rather swamped by the mid-tone brass. There was a distinct lack of detail in a number of the movements that make up both works (one example is ... Read More: Rating: - In a league of its ownTowering, majestic, commanding, bursting with passion and energy, these are thoroughly spirited performances of the Elgar variations and Holst's Planets, sublime recordings that are truly worthy of the EMI Classics logo. Part of their Great Recordings of the Century series, it provides welcome relief for escapees of the Classic FM "pop" culture, for connoisseurs of truly beautiful and complete classical interpretations. Famous around the world, Elgar's supreme string control and intertwining themes, and Holst's magical woodwind and transcendent strident brass provide monumental templates that many subsequent composers have turned to for inspiration and reference. These are not just any recordings, they are, in my opinion, ... Read More: Rating: - Awesome, i moshed all night to thisAt first i thought it was a bit heavy, but by the 2536327st time i'd heard this album i really started to like it. This may seem a bit way out, but i'd compare it to the great works of cannibal corpse and sahwoddy woddy. Immense. Rating: - simply the bestI don't think there is a better CD of English classics than this one. Rob Cowan chose Boult's 'Enigma' as the best available version the last time the work was reviewed on Radio 3's CD Review. It is a performance that manages to balance all the different moods and characters of the musical pictures of Elgar's 'friends pictured within' quite beautifully, and the sound is excellent 1970s analogue. Boult was the first man to conduct 'The Planets' and recorded it five times, and this is probably the best performance and certainly the best recording. From start to finish it is a joy. I find it amazing that a man who was - what? - well on in his 80s when he made this could produce an interpretation of such energy and poetry, but so it is. An unmissable ... Read More: |
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