Originally posted by Beef Oven!
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BaL 27.09.14 - Holst: The Planets
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostAnyone know if the Bournemouth SO, version conducted by George Hurst, produced by Brian Culverhouse on the Contour label is available?
Foulds Brian
Would they sell 1000 copies?
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VodkaDilc
There's only one version on my shelves - Dutoit/Montreal - but that seems a pretty good version to me.
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Originally posted by VodkaDilc View PostThere's only one version on my shelves - Dutoit/Montreal - but that seems a pretty good version to me.
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Originally posted by visualnickmos View PostIt is "a pretty good version" indeed! It's the only one I know where the organ is dramatically audible. Shivers down the spine, stuff... Love it."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostTry Boult's 1973 Prom performance on a BBC MM CD to hear the RAH organ, particularly thunderous in that notorious glissando in Uranus.
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Originally posted by visualnickmos View PostI do actually have this CD - must give it another whirl - now, in fact! Yes - now I'm thinking about it - it does indeed, have that awe-inspiring glissando."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by seabright View PostI think I'm right in saying that the Maazel / French National Orchestra version doesn't specify the name of the chorus in "Neptune" and if memory serves the 'Gramophone' review revealed it to be an anonymous boys' choir, probably from some local church.
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Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View PostWasn't the Halle/Loughran recording highly regarded at one time, I can remember hearing the LP in the late 70's.
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Fascinating BAL this one - whatever the outcome - which is just about to be revealed. The notion that you might not even be able to tell what key the work ends in depending perhaps on a door opener/closer or the limits of one's hearing is very odd - though why any piece "has" to conform to any pre-defined key structure is also odd.
Worth recording this one to listen to again and again.
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