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Scott Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 16 May 2000 09:44:27 -0500
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Here's a review I posted recently to Amazon.com of a recording by Jesus
Lopez-Cobos and the Cincinnati Symphony of Respighi's Pines and Fountains
of Rome, and the Metamorphoseon, also by Respighi.:

I've been buying recordings of Pines/Fountains since about 1950 and
must have twelve of them.  This one goes straight to the top of the list,
although I wouldn't want to give up those of Munch, Bernstein, Toscanini.
This Cincinnati orchestra is an unknown treasure.  The very soloistic music
is amazingly served by the Cincinnati principals (I'd like to single out
the solo clarinet, English horn, and trumpet), the string section (shades
of the old Philadelphia Orchestra!) is especially rich, and Lopez-Cobos's
tempi are very well-judged.  The Metamorphoseon is like a 25-minute
Concerto for Orchestra where the orchestra and its soloists continually
shine.  Telarc's recording puts this at the top of the class acoustically
as well.

Scott Morrison

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