Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
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Great recording
Great recording of a powerful piece. The organ is clearly a wonderful pipe organ, with all the registers audible. In other recordings however, the piano is more easily heard. In this one, the piano is lost in the rest of the sound.
Saint-Saen's No. 3
I had never heard this symphony before I bought the CD. It is a wonderful recording of fabulous music. I highly recommend it!
The Recording Is A Mess
I had never heard this piece before. I am fond of his piano works, and an audio forum I belong to recommended this piece to demonstrate my speakers. The Ormandy connection was a major factor, Telarc is a plus, and the booklet blurb made the recording sound as if it was going to be a monument of some sort. I was afraid that being an early digital recording it would be shrill as so many were. Well, I need not have worried myself about shrill. The recording is, simply, a mess. Violins sound like kazoos, the woodwinds sound as if wrapped in towels and the organ sounds far off. The entire presentation is not 'you are there' nor 'they are here'; it's more like, the doors of the church are open and you are across the street at a cabstand. The jacket blurb arrogantly dismisses the notion of recording the organ and symphony separately and combining the two in the mix. I wish to heaven they'd done that, since the much-vaunted sonics of the church just aren't there, nor is there the dry immediacy and clarity of a studio recording. It's somewhere in a mushy middle. I'm hoping a skilled engineer like John Eargle at Delos has recorded this, I want to hear his version so I can listen to the music and not be distracted by an third-rate recording.
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