I investigated other reservations by comparing the new recording with Vänskä's Lahti performance, amongst others. Especially in the slow movement, a brief fusillade of timps was let loose, not sanctioned in the score's dynamic instructions. The tympani sounded to be played with quite hard sticks (as in the Beethoven cycle). after the second subject, woodwind lines without tie-lines were played so detached that it sound like the true staccato of the first subject's tune. My first play-through of the Second Symphony revealed some unusual textual features which caught the ear.
#SIBELIUS 5 TWO TITLES FULL#
Within a huge dynamic range, I loved the orchestra's truly soft playing (complete with audible body of tone), the pizzicati of cellos and violas in the Second Symphony's second movement - you can hear the full 'twang' on every string - and the Minnesota orchestra's brass chorus with its thrilling Sibelius blend and wonderful precision. This recording is completely in harmony with the music, unobtrusively conveying the full experience of music-making. The booklet now declares the original format, in this case 96K/24bit. The BIS engineers have produced a simply beautiful, realistic,airy, wonderfully detailed and three-dimensional multichannel sound, with a stereo track as good as one could expect. Turning to the sound first, the experience gained in recording the Vänskä Beethoven cycle in Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis has been gainfully employed. There appear to be two main reasons for this new cycle Vänskä has been re-thinking his approach to the symphonies, playing them in concert to a new public, and BIS has been keen to record a new set with high resolution multichannel sound. Sadly, we can never quite recapture the intensity of feeling aroused when encountering a piece of music for the first time. It certainly captured me, as did Barbirolli's inspirational Fifth. That was certainly true for me I first heard it at Hallé concerts with Sir John Barbirolli, who is still regarded as one of the symphony's finest exponents. Indeed, the Second Symphony is often cited as the one which led listeners to the composer. It has a happy pairing of the Second with the Fifth, since they have musical features in common, and are arguably the most popular of the set. It's over a decade since Vänskä's Sibelius cycle with the Lahti orchestra was completed. How sad that the SACD does not include the excellent quadraphonic mix of this album. Eagles: Desperado | oxenholme - October 17, 2021 The medical symptoms he was experiencing sounded very. I corresponded by email over the years with John Miller and the last time he contacted me was on 24 March 2019. Bach: Ciaccona - Hu | Graham Williams - October 18, 2021 Bruckner: 9 Symphonies - Blomstedt | DYB - October 15, 2021Īnother recommendation for this set. Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil | Ben Leggett - September 29, It does not - 6 tracks, original/standard track listing, no bonuses. Eagerly awaited in this household on the South Coast of "Old" Hampshire. 4 - Fischer | hiredfox - October 16, 2021 I just compared the three recordings regarding the sound of the. 3 - Chailly | AOS - October 13, I am not talking about my system setup or the function of the rear speakers, which I am fully aware.
#SIBELIUS 5 TWO TITLES PLUS#
I guess we are about to have a Canteloube competition:) Chandos has 14 songs plus Britten. Britten: Les Illuminations, Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne - Eriksmoen, Gardner | diw - October 20, 2021 These are performances that balance well between the "big band" and Brahms' preference for smaller numbers of. Manze strikes a real balance between dynamism and clarity. Tonolo & Bianchetti: Songs we like Recent comments Brahms: 4 Symphonies - Manze | SACD-MAN (threerandot) - October 19, 2021