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Re: Best-Sounding Rozsa Discs
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Paul Levesque
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I support John's list, and yes, the multichannel Telarc is a spectacular improvement over sterero. (As an aside, the Gerhardt compilation also has some "definitive" performances, as far as I'm concerned. Track 9, the love theme from
Lost Weekend
, is one of those less-than-three-minute musical masterpieces that manages to convey the very essence of Rozsa's greatness.) And of course the three Polydors are indispendable.
A recording seldom mentioned hereabouts is the Denon
Europe Goes To Hollywood
compilation, in which John Scott conducts the BH
Prelude
and
Parade Of The Charioteers
. From a purely sonic perspective, this happens to be my favorite
Prelude
. The mass of orchestral sound in this music can sometimes become so dense that individual voices get lost. In this recording, the overall balances are so near-perfect that every voice comes through distinctly.
This, incidentally, is why (unlike many who frequent these pages) I always welcome new recordings of music I love. This John Scott recording lets me hear subtleties that I didn't even know were there, and when I return to one of the more familiar versions, I can now either actually hear, or at least "imagine," the inner voicings that up until then were absent in my appreciation. Each separate performance, (even a "poor" one,) has the ability to enhance overall understanding and appreciation of a given piece of music.
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