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- From: bseymour@encore.com (Burch Seymour)
- Subject: Re: Rachmaninoff's "VESPERS"
- Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:29:48 GMT
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- UCSBILLB@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (William H Baumer) writes:
-
- >In article <18750@mindlink.bc.ca>
- >Nation@mindlink.bc.ca (Brian Nation) writes:
- >
- >>
- >There is an excellent recording of R's VESPERS by Robert Shaw and the
- >Robert Shaw Festival Singers (not the large Atlanta Symphony Chorus)
- >on Telarc, CD-80172, recorded in 1990 in Quercy, France. This is, I
- >think, one of Shaw's best, ranking with the old RS Chorale's CHRISTMAS
- >HYMNS AND CAROLS.
- >
- >William H. Baumer
- >University at Buffalo
-
- Great vocal sounds, but his tempi are way slow. Try the Washington
- Choral Arts/Rostropovich (available from BMG club). Much more
- exciting.
-
- I haven't heard the Russian versions, but they are supposed to be
- better still. Especially the low b-flat.
-
- -bs-
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