Album review: Sir Neville Marriner
Published Date:
14 September 2008
By ALEXANDER BRYCE
SIR NEVILLE MARRINER
Rachmaninov's Symphony No 2
*****
Classic FM CFM 031, £5.99 (HMV)
When deciding which recordings of classical music you should buy, if money was less of an object everyone could head straight for Radio 3's long-running 'Building a Library' for its informed comparisons of performances of the same work.
Classic FM's new low-cost series of CDs takes a different track: one price, one source of music (Universal's huge back catalogue) and one outlet (HMV, unless you head for the download option).
The performances are certainly strong enough: Sir Neville Marriner's performance of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony has all the lush grandeur you could wish for, and the companion CDs are equally well-bred, whether it's the English Concert performing Bach's Brandenburg Concertos or Ashkenazy playing Chopin. If the price means you're not going to find opera (excerpts aside), the quality of music alone makes this worth hearing.
Download this: Allegro molto'
The full article contains 160 words and appears in Scotland On Sunday newspaper.
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Last Updated:
12 September 2008 4:49 PM
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Source:
Scotland On Sunday
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Location:
Scotland
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