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- From: jdooley@maemaster.eng.uci.edu (John R. Dooley)
- Subject: Re: Respighi's Fountains of Rome
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 01:03:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.175745.58952@qut.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Nov20.175745.58952@qut.edu.au> bellmann@qut.edu.au writes:
- > In Respighi's score of "Fountains of Rome" the two harps are marked
- >"ad libitum". I grew up with the Toscanini version and got to consider
- >the harps as absolutely essential, specially in the last section. It was
- >very disappointing for me to get Dutoit's CD and find no harps at all.
- >Next I tried Ozawa, just in case he had a different idea but missed again.
- >Does anybody know of a CD version of the tryptic that includes the harps?
- >
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- London has a budget CD with Istvan Kerstyk (sp?) and the London Symphony
- Orchestra doing the Pines and the Fountains of Rome, as well as The
- Birds. The performances are great and the Fountains include harps.
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- John D.
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