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Tarfumes.com - Music of Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11/Orchestral Music; Leonard Slatkin
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List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $10.97
Your Save: $ 6.01 ( 35% )
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Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0077774946322
Label: EMI Classics
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: EMI Classics
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Studio: EMI Classics
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Summary: Fine Performances in Rapidly Dating Sound Quality
Comment: This has been in my collection since it was released in the late '80s and still represents well-nigh definitive (there's that word I hate using!) one-stop shopping for the many compactly composed orchestral gems of Samuel Barber. Quibbles can be made here or there concerning tempos, phrasing, and balances; but all are performed with a fine grasp of Barber's distinctly 20th century American idiom. Returning to it this morning, my main complaint has to do with the sound quality which could certainly do with a "refurbishing"; I'm wondering if such was effected on the recent EMI Gemini release in which these performances are included (Barber: Adagio for Strings; Violin Concerto; Orchestral & Chamber Works). As to the performances; the brass, winds, and percussion make themselves effectively heard and felt; but the otherwise fine strings are often noticeably underpowered. I found myself wishing to hear these performed with the likes of the Berlin Philharmonic...for shame!
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Summary: Slow, slower, slowest
Comment: Longest Adagio, I have ever heard. Endless. Perfect for funerals.
The rest is average to say the least.
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Summary: Music review
Comment: After blank looks from the staff in High Street record shops I went to Amazon and found the music I was looking for immediately.
It was simple to purchase and it arrived very quickly. So no contest!
The music is fantastic.
Thank you Amazon.
Julian Culley
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Summary: Best Barber CD available
Comment: Much better than the Zinman disk in my view. Buy it for the Adagio. Love it for all of the pieces. Gorgeous!
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Summary: GET this disc- it is absolutely phenomenal
Comment: THis CD is worth 10 times its weight in gold. Just get it, get it now, before you have to hear a minute more bad music.
It'll play in your head for the rest of your life.
What a great investment in your mind.
Have you bought it yet?
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