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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The sound level of 3 tracks on the CD disappears down to near inaudible levels (and my equpment works fine). I would not have bought the CD if I had known this beforehand.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This organ recording has been lovingley remastered and the hiss is barely audible. With Simon Preston at the console of Westminster Abbey the organ sounds squeaky clean and Preston sounds at his utmost best. The fantasia by Mozart is a real thriller and keeps the listener on the edge of his seat.
I particularly liked the Wachet auf with a very firm pedal underpinning the melody.
As you know the westminster abbey organ at the time of this recording was only a 4 manual ( now 5). It was recorded in 1967.
My only gripe with the disc is that the toccata by Widor sounded a bit thin.
This is a recording worthy of your collection and with a large network of suppliers this EMI disc should be very easy to get hold of.
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I particularly liked the Wachet auf with a very firm pedal underpinning the melody.
As you know the westminster abbey organ at the time of this recording was only a 4 manual ( now 5). It was recorded in 1967.
My only gripe with the disc is that the toccata by Widor sounded a bit thin.
This is a recording worthy of your collection and with a large network of suppliers this EMI disc should be very easy to get hold of.
Buy it!
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I agree basically with the second reviewer. The Mozart fantasia is very good (with a yummy fugue!), but still better would have been the Adagio & Allegro K594. Preston plays throughout the CD like a late 19th century Romantic, naturally using the expression pedal - today this kind of playing is frowned upon by period instrument dogmatists, but in the early 60s it still could be played the good old way. This confused Reviewer #1; in fact the dynamic balance of the recording is superb, not over-extended and this allows the performer supreme delicacy and power at the other end.
Thanks to the remastering, the good selection of music and the brilliant performance, this CD is a good presentation of the instrument as it gets. The sound of the Abbey organ is impressive and Preston's registrations rich and virtuosity overwhelming. Unfortunately he didn't come up as well in some of his later recordings, like the Handel concertos, due in part to the problems with period instrument constraints I dipped into above.
Thanks to the remastering, the good selection of music and the brilliant performance, this CD is a good presentation of the instrument as it gets. The sound of the Abbey organ is impressive and Preston's registrations rich and virtuosity overwhelming. Unfortunately he didn't come up as well in some of his later recordings, like the Handel concertos, due in part to the problems with period instrument constraints I dipped into above.
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