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Zubin Mehta conduz a Los Angeles Philarmonic Orchestra e a sua Master Chorale nesta famosa gravação audiófila de The Planets de Holst. A orquestração desta performance é rica, densa e extravagante, e no entanto soa sempre fluída, com clareza e transparência. Outros dois ingredientes, invenção melódica e sentido rítmico, eram apanágio de Holst. Performance e som impressionantes nesta reedição da Original Recordings Group!

• Edição Limitada Numerada
• Apenas 2500 Unidades prensadas em todo o Mundo
• Capa Gatefold Deluxe Laminada
• Vinil 180 Gramas 45rpm prensado na RTI USA
• Masterizado por Bernie Grundman
• Masterizado a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais

"Zubin Mehta conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (with the female voices of the Los Angeles Master Chorale) for this audiophile recording of Holst's The Planets. "The scoring of The Planets is rich and extravagant (quadruple wood-wind, enormous brass and a percussion section requiring three players, not to mention such exotic additions as bass flute, bass tuba and organ) and yet the sound is always clear and transparent. There are two other ingredients to add to this formula — melodic invention and a great sense of rhythm. Holst had these in plenty. If his methods seemed novel during his life-time they have become commonplace since — but never dull.

"This is real music of the stars — free from all earthly sentiment. It is a vision of remote beauty and ideal perfection. Silvery sounds unfold yet without the remotest suggestion of a theme to disturb the spiritual concentration. There is constant shifting of harmony and changing tone colour. The icy tinkling of celesta and glockenspiel and the wordless, disembodied female chorus which floats over and around the closing pages were later (some 35 years later) to find their way into Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antarctica. There is, and can be, no end to this music — it fades away but cannot die: It is as infinite as space itself and as intangible as the most distant parts of the subconscious."

"Holst's 1916 masterpiece is a paragon of orchestral splendor and majesty ...an audiophile spectacular ...the ORG is cleaner, sharper, airier, deeper, and more "there" than the London original... The brass glow a deeper gold, the strings are silkier and warmer, on the ORG vinyl." - Mark Lehman, The Absolute Sound, December 2013"
 

Músicos:

Los Angeles Master Chorale (D-2)
Dr. Roger Wagner, direcção musical
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta, condutor

Lista de Faixas:

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The Planets - suite

Lado A
I.  Mars, the Bringer of War - Allegro
II. Venus, The Bringer of Peace - Adagio

Lado B
III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger - Vivace
IV.  Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity - Allegro giocoso

Lado C
V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age - Adagio

Lado D
VI.  Uranus, the Magician - Allegro
VII. Neptune, the Mystic - Andante

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