Barber: Canzonetta for Oboe and String Orchestra/Strauss: Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra/Wolf-Ferrari: Idillio

Samuel Barber (Composer), Richard [1] Strauss (Composer), Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (Composer), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer), Donald Spieth (Conductor), Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra
• Conductor: Donald Spieth
• Composer: Samuel Barber, Richard [1] Strauss, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Audio CD (January 25, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Koch Int'l Classics
• ASIN: B000001SDF
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,585 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, December 18, 2002

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This review is from: Barber: Canzonetta for Oboe and String Orchestra/Strauss: Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra/Wolf-Ferrari: Idillio (Audio CD)

Lucarelli is by far my favorite oboist. He has the most beautiful tone and sense of expression. I highly recommend this CD, even if you aren't an oboe afficianado. He's fabulous.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Some good playing BADLY let down, October 28, 2005

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This review is from: Barber: Canzonetta for Oboe and String Orchestra/Strauss: Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra/Wolf-Ferrari: Idillio (Audio CD)

All you really need to do is listen to the first 29 seconds of the last movement of the Vaughan Williams with the score, and that should be enough to persuade you not to buy this recording.

Mr Lucarelli is a fine and beautiful player, but lack of attention to detail of the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, and more importantly the engineers/producers is execrable.

The orchestra is frequently out of tune, in completely in the wrong place, or just generally come unstuck with the soloist completely. The real crime is that the producers allowed it to happen, and allowed it to be released!

If this had been a live recording, some of this may have been acceptable; it wasn't, so it isn't.

An amateurish attempt, marring some excellent playing from the soloist (this fine playing being the only reason I rated it with 'two' stars rather than a pitiful 'one'). Don't waste your money.