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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad, for early '60s mono, April 12, 2002
This review is from: Martinu: Symphony No. 4, Frescoes of Piero Della Francesca, Three Parables for Orchestra After the Poems of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Georges Neveu (Audio CD)
Ansermet's readings of Martinu are passionate and lush, and the Suisse Romande orchestra sounds pleasantly physical and rough-textured...the vinyl mono sound (is that a touch of surface hiss?) captures the nasal oboes and scratchy strings much better than most ultra-smooth modern recordings. So, the disc's a keeper unless you're crazy about ultra-pure sound.
There are touches of '50s sonorities in some of the pieces which haven't aged altoghether well. Martinu's music doesn't sound like anyone else's, though, and the pieces in general are nicely structured and rewarding.
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