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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post.
Rheims/Reims? ( English: /riːmz/; French: /ʁɛ̃s/ )
... or again :
Armentières ( French : /aʁmɑ̃tjɛːʁ/ )
(English : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtiynnETOlM )
[ ... message to self : never use the phrase "with the sole exception" ]
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Originally posted by Heldenleben View PostThat would be going too far I think. I think the policy , as far as possible, is to be accurate . Interesting that we anglicise Rome , Vienna etc but now make an attempt to get Chinese cities right .
Do you remember when we used to add an S to both Lyon and Marseille to make them look more French?
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostHow are the singers arranged - choirs or voices and how does one record and listen to that?
Though usually encountered on CD, the recording was also issued in surround SACD format.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostI can't find the image of he actual choir in action, but the arrangement was much as here:
Though usually encountered on CD, the recording was also issued in surround SACD format.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostThat looks like the set-up for Janet Cardiff's art installation version? I was lucky enough to be able to experience that in an empty medieval church some years ago, but that was why I was wondering about the recorded version. How does the sound of the CD shown differ from conventionally arranged recordings?
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostThat looks like the set-up for Janet Cardiff's art installation version? I was lucky enough to be able to experience that in an empty medieval church some years ago, but that was why I was wondering about the recorded version. How does the sound of the CD shown differ from conventionally arranged recordings?
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostThat's the surround SACD version. I have both (the CD turns up in various boxed sets). With the SACD and a suitably set up surround system, one is indeed surrounded by the singers. It's a long time since I listened to the disc on a surround system, I will have to dig it out and give it another spin.
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostOddoneout is referring to your first photo, and I agree that it looks like the Cardiff - the benches in the middle are the giveaway, I think.
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There is at least one other surround recording of Spem in alium availalbe, that by I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth. That, however, is on the DVD of a 2 disc set (CD + DVD) and in lossy Dolby DIgital 5.1 surround, audio only, and is of a version accompanied buy instruments (an attempt at a reconstruction of the original).
Having just listened to the I Fagiolini recording, I am now taking in the Hueglas Ensemble SACD. Quite, quite magical. If you have access to an SACD surround system, I would highly recommend getting this disc. https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...659--40-voicesLast edited by Bryn; 22-03-19, 13:46.
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