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Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony
Conductor: Michael Stern
Composer: Hindemith, Prokofiev, Bartok
Audio CD (March 11, 2014)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Reference Records
ASIN: B00HT3NKZI
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,561 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Nice program, but the recording has some problems

By David E Rowe on October 9, 2014

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I am reviewing the HDCD issue. And let me start off with expressing irritation with Reference Recordings for not issuing the hybrid SACD/CD from the get-go, rather than the CD first, then the SACD months later. Not only is it a stupid idea for consumers, but one would think it would be expensive to produce. But whatever.

I don't know if Reference Recordings is having some issues down-converting the 5-channel surround recording to 2-channel CD, but this recording has some problems. It sounds to me like we are hearing more of what the engineers want the Kansas City Symphony to sound like than Michael Stern does. The Hindemith is more brass-prominent, with the string details very difficult to hear. But then in the Bartok, the strings are spotlit way forward (and overly fulsome) and the brass nearly disappear altogether into the distance. Are the Kansas City strings so scrawny that they need this much highlighting? It is completely unnatural and certainly unnecessary. The Prokofiev sounds the most natural here. I wish the engineers would have kept the spotlight mics turned off and their fingers off the controls and just let Michael Stern have his way with balances.

But the real problem here is the bass drum. It is miced so closely and prominently that it overwhelms the orchestra ever time it is stuck. And not in an impressive, sock-to-the-gut way that Telarc mastered in its day. No, this is a loose, flabby, boomy, over-reverberant sound that over-saturates the soundfield in a most unpleasant way. On speakers that do not produce true low bass (below 40 hz or so), this may not be as big a problem. But with true, full-range systems, this is really a problem.Read more ›

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Excellent performances in most-natural sound

By John J. Puccio TOP 1000 REVIEWER on March 24, 2014

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The first selection is the most obvious example of the album's theme: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, written by German-born U.S. composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) for ballet performance. Hindemith completed the work in 1943, based on music originally composed by Weber in the early nineteenth century as incidental music for a play by Carlo Gozzi. Although the piece continues to get some ballet performances, we more often hear the symphonic arrangement presented here by Maestro Michael Stern and his Kansas City Symphony.

The music is generally light and lively, and that's the way Maestro Stern plays it. Just as Hindemith maintained a healthy respect for Weber's music, so does Stern maintain a respect for Hindemith, neither over-dramatizing the more boisterous sections nor romanticizing the slower, more sentimental parts. He handles the Turandot Scherzo especially well, the percussion putting on a splendidly vigorous show. The Andantino is appropriately calm yet never so gentle as to put one to sleep. Then Hindemith returns to the lighthearted energy of the first movement with an exuberant closing March, which Stern handles well, efficiently building the excitement incrementally until we arrive at an enormously rousing climax. Fun stuff.

Following the Hindemith piece is the suite from The Love of Three Oranges by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953). The composer intended The Love of Three Oranges as a satirical opera, premiered in 1921 and based again on the works of Carlo Gozzi, so we get two connections between the Hindemith and Prokofiev pieces--the composers meant them to be amusing and based them on works by the same earlier author.

Anyway, here we get the six-movement suite Prokofiev lifted from his opera.Read more ›

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Five Stars

By Bob H. on January 28, 2015

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Great CD

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