REFERENCE RR17 Audiophile STRAVINSKY L'Histoire Du Saldat CHICAGO PRO MUSICA TAS
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Description
STRAVINSKY L'Histoire Du Saldat (The Soldier's Tale Suite)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio Espagnol
The Chicago Pro Musica
NM/NM Audiophile Vinyl Record - 45 RPM
Record Label: Reference Recordings RR17
Original Reference Recording. A Prof. Keith Johnson recording. A TAS Superdisc Title.
For over 30 years Reference Recordings have been making some of the greatest sounding recordings on Earth. Engineer Prof. Keith O. Johnson, renowned for his more than 50 pioneering years of recording and equipment design, has always been at the forefront of high-resolution audio. He has engineered nearly 150 classical and jazz albums, including seven that have been nominated for and two that have won Grammys for Best Engineered Classical Recording.
Condition: Laminated gatefold record sleeve is in like new condition. Corners are sharp, spine is straight and there is no wear visible. Gatefold feels as if it's never been opened all the way. It crackles when you open it. There are no spindle marks on the label. Vinyl looks like new and plays beautifully.
Selections:
1. The Soldier's Tale - Suite: The Soldier's March
2. The Soldier's Tale - Suite: Scene 2: Soldier At The Brook
3. The Soldier's Tale - Suite: Scene 3: Pastorale
4. The Soldier's Tale - Suite: The Royal March
5. The Soldier's Tale - Suite: The Little Concert
6. The Soldier's Tale - Suite: Three Dances: Tango, Waltz, Ragtime
7. The Soldier's Tale - Suite: The Devil's Dance
8. The Soldier's Tale - Suite: Grand Chorale
9. The Soldier's Tale - Suite: Triumphal March of the Devil
10. Capriccio Espagnol
Review: This is a delightfully crisp interpretation of Stravinsky's whimsical "L'Histoire du Soldat", which can be performed as a theater piece with narration and dance, or as on this recording, simply as a chamber composition for 7 instruments; clarinet, cornet, trombone, double-bass, and with a percussion battery representing the devil, and a violin the soldier.
Recorded in '83, there is a "closeness" to the sound that serves the music well.
One is accustomed to hearing Rimsky-Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnol" as a lush orchestral extravaganza, so this arrangement by composer/pianist Easley Blackwood for a small ensemble (flute, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, violin, cello, bass and piano), might sound very strange at first. I think it works on a different level, and though it's not the way I'd like to hear this composition all the time, one can easily appreciate this lovely piece in this "skeletal" version.
Stravinsky having been Rimsky-Korsakov's student, makes this an interesting recording. To quote the liner notes: "...it brings together two works which, although stylistically worlds apart, are nevertheless imperceptibly connected by virtue of a significant personal and historic relationship between the composers."
The Chicago Pro Musica is comprised of virtuoso musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra organized by clarinetist John Bruce Yeh in 1979. These pieces highlight violinist Albert Igolnikov, but you'll get to hear and appreciate them all as individuals as well as a group in this unusual but pleasing and inventive recording.
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