BaL 11.06.22 - Debussy: La Mer

[richardfinegold]

Good comparisons methinks! DetSO (I always call it that in my indexing, as DSO is Dresden Staatskapelle), probably was one of the top French orchestras in the 50s/early sixties because of Paray, in the same way that Dutoit and the OSM were in the 80s, though the French links to Montreal and Quebec have remained stronger than Detroit and Michigan!

Interesting. I have a few of those Dutoit/OSM recordings but haven't listened in years, all Berlioz, I think. Which reminds me, the Paray Symphony Fantastique is superb!

[cloughie]

Interesting. I have a few of those Dutoit/OSM recordings but haven't listened in years, all Berlioz, I think. Which reminds me, the Paray Symphony Fantastique is superb!

Yes it iis - I must do a comparison of SFs with PCO/Argenta. Dutoit’s Daphnis is excellent!

[Keraulophone]

Which reminds me, the Paray Symphony Fantastique is superb!

I’m glad to have found it in the first Mercury box. It will accompany me on tomorrow’s drive across southern England from Cornwall to East Kent.
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[Ein Heldenleben]

I’m glad to have found it in the first Mercury box. It will accompany me on tomorrow’s drive across southern England from Cornwall to East Kent.
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If it’s anything like my last trip from West Devon to East Dorset I’d take the Ring Cycle as a backup

[Keraulophone]

If it’s anything like my last trip from West Devon to East Dorset I’d take the Ring Cycle as a backup

[HighlandDougie]

Yes it iis - I must do a comparison of SFs with PCO/Argenta. Dutoit’s Daphnis is excellent!

Yeah but, no but, Dutoit didn't quite make the cut in the (relatively) recent BaL on D & C from Jeremy Sams. All a bit glib (but I find Dutoit to be a bit of a plodster so I'm a bit biased against him).

[Nick Armstrong]

the magic of Paray

I’ve been much enjoying this in the car:



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[Hostly footnote: I’m wondering whether the general Parayphile posts here wouldn’t be be best moved over to a specific thread - does one currently exist devoted to Paray, does anyone know? I haven’t got time to search just now]