Steven Martin wrote:
>FWIW the Job is actually conducted by David Lloyd-Jones while most of the
>RVW in Naxos catalog is conducted by Bakels. At this point, I scarf up
>anything with Lloyd-Jones conducting. His recordings of Holst and Bliss
>have been getting worn out on my CD player. Last week I bought a disk of
>him conducting some Britten which I have also been enjoying immensely.
But be careful of the Bax First. It's a very gritty, dramatic performance.
No problem there, but someone put a mike right in front of the trombones
and turned it up. It comes across as an annoying, laser-like buzz out of
the right speaker that gets pretty irritating at times. Others I've talked
to have noticed this too, so it's not a system problem unique to me. Too
bad.
Roger Hecht