- Audio CD (8 Feb 2002)
- Please Note: Requires SACD-compatible hardware
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: SACD, Import
- Label: Sony Classical Japan
- ASIN: B00005HS01
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 882,236 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Format:Audio CD
What a truly wondrous piece of music-making is here!
Try and recall that electricity which characterises the really great concerts - it's here in abundance, conveyed by the microphones to our ears 40 years later. Truly the magic of the gramophone...
I am familiar only with the sound of the Cleveland orchestra on a few occasions when they visited London after Szell's death. But here we hear that great orchestra and conductor in their prime, with the added frisson of a live performance when they are clearly inspired to sublime music-making.
It starts unexceptionally, with a fine but not exactly earth-shattering Weber Oberon overture, and a lithe and transparent Mozart 40th. Then the magic happens. From the very first bars of the Sibelius second, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening. There follows a seismic performance, carved from granite, ice and fire. Anyone whoever said that Szell lacks passion, please listen to this.
Not only is the playing magnificent, of course, but the reading seems to grow and transform organically and inevitably until the final orgasmic bars.
Phew...
Quite naturally, it brings down the house. There then follows the encore of a Racoczy March characterised by swaggering virtuosity and volcanic intensity. Cue house collapse once again.
Oh dear, I haven't mentioned the sound, but it's really rather incidental here: a bit wiry in string tone, but not at all bad. It's good enough to allow the music to shine through, and that's all that really matters here.
Great music-making. That's all you need to know. And the recording is still readily available in Japan. So, what are you waiting for? '
Try and recall that electricity which characterises the really great concerts - it's here in abundance, conveyed by the microphones to our ears 40 years later. Truly the magic of the gramophone...
I am familiar only with the sound of the Cleveland orchestra on a few occasions when they visited London after Szell's death. But here we hear that great orchestra and conductor in their prime, with the added frisson of a live performance when they are clearly inspired to sublime music-making.
It starts unexceptionally, with a fine but not exactly earth-shattering Weber Oberon overture, and a lithe and transparent Mozart 40th. Then the magic happens. From the very first bars of the Sibelius second, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening. There follows a seismic performance, carved from granite, ice and fire. Anyone whoever said that Szell lacks passion, please listen to this.
Not only is the playing magnificent, of course, but the reading seems to grow and transform organically and inevitably until the final orgasmic bars.
Phew...
Quite naturally, it brings down the house. There then follows the encore of a Racoczy March characterised by swaggering virtuosity and volcanic intensity. Cue house collapse once again.
Oh dear, I haven't mentioned the sound, but it's really rather incidental here: a bit wiry in string tone, but not at all bad. It's good enough to allow the music to shine through, and that's all that really matters here.
Great music-making. That's all you need to know. And the recording is still readily available in Japan. So, what are you waiting for? '
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