Record to break your lease.
Some of you might have this record or heard of it. It’s Respighi’s “Feste Romane” and the “Pines of Rome” on an Original Master Recording with Lorin Maazel and the Cleveland Orchestra. It may not be the best performance out there, but, undoubtedly, it’s the most spectacular sounding LP I’ve heard. The Feste Romana will shake your walls.
You can find on Discogs for not much money.
Not the best music in the world, but impressive nonetheless.
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@rvpiano First thank you for acknowledging the points on the composer and composition. Second, I never responded to the premise of your post. I am going to recommend a composition and recording that may many consider from left field but will be a lease breaker from both a composition and engineering perspective. I do not know if 20th century classical is a flavor of choice for you but regardless, give Reflections (2L-125-SABD): Performed by the TrondheimSolistene, Benjamin Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Igor Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète. Specifically, the Britten piece, with typical 2L engineering excellence, has exceptional tonality, deep string bass extension, sweet midrange and treble with bloom, and micro to explosive macrodynamic response. Form our recent discussion you know I favor untraditional tonality to a degree. Britten moved music into the 30th century without abandoning completely traditional harmonic structure, but uses dissonant unresolved 7ths and 9ths as his modern contemporaries as well as repetitive underlying rhythmic changes. He is able in this manor to develop rich tonal color from a smaller orchestral score. Let me know what you think of the composition and recording, and if the opening movements are lease breakers. |
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