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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I actually bought this CD for the Liszt, but forgot all about him when heard the Roumanian Rhapsody. It may not be authentic folk-music... but who cares? Enesco crafted a dazzling, breathless confection and this resurrected recording sounds as alive as they day it was taped. It's a sort of central European Ravel's Bolero, but faster.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This was one of the very best discs in the Mercury catalog. Dorati inspired the LSO to play like a real gypsy band, with punchy rhythms, hairpin orchestral playing and the tangy sounds of a cymbalom.
A treat from start to finish.
A treat from start to finish.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This kind of music is often dismissed as 'popular froth' - not 'proper' classical music, but far from 'proper' folk music either. But who cares - it's melodious, rhythmical and tremendous fun. Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies were based on a mixture of Hungarian traditional and gypsy music, while Enescu's 1st Romanian Rhapsody is based around 'Ciocarlia' (the skylark) - not, as many people think, a Romanian folk tune but an instrumental piece written by the Romanian lautaresc musician (lautareasca is virtuoso stringed instrumental music) Anghelus Dinicu. And what a virtoso piece it is! It mimics the soaring flight of the skylark as well as its warbling song, and Enescu tranforms it into something truly magical as well as fast and exciting. The violins soar and dive with the skylark, and surely only the truly jaded could fail to respond to it.
Antal Dorati was a past master at interpreting this kind of music (as well as the more serious stuff, of course) and he and the London Symphony Orchestra sound as if they were having a ball with this recording. The sound is so good it's difficult to believe it was recorded almost 50 years ago (in the case of the Enescu and 2 of the Liszt Rhapsodies, literally 50 years ago). Fantastic stuff!
Antal Dorati was a past master at interpreting this kind of music (as well as the more serious stuff, of course) and he and the London Symphony Orchestra sound as if they were having a ball with this recording. The sound is so good it's difficult to believe it was recorded almost 50 years ago (in the case of the Enescu and 2 of the Liszt Rhapsodies, literally 50 years ago). Fantastic stuff!
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