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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Martin Eastick on Wednesday 28 February 2018, 15:53

Title: Marshall-Hall symphony in C minor (digital orchestral performance)
Post by: Martin Eastick on Wednesday 28 February 2018, 15:53
I don't know if this may be of interest to anyone here - certainly the Marshall-Hall symphony would be of interest in its own right (the rest of the CD I can easily do without!), but I am definitely suspicious of a recording with "digital orchestra"! Here now is the opportunity for a REAL orchestra do do the honours! http://www.tallpoppies.net/ (http://www.tallpoppies.net/) (TP255)
Title: Re: Marshall-Hall symphony in C minor (digital orchestral performance)
Post by: sdtom on Wednesday 28 February 2018, 15:56
fully agree with you. It's a synth recording.
Title: Re: Marshall-Hall symphony in C minor (digital orchestral performance)
Post by: Mark Thomas on Wednesday 28 February 2018, 22:45
The Adagio from this symphony has been available for several years now played by a real orchestra on a CD coupling it with Marshall-Hall's E flat Symphony (http://www.move.com.au/disc/marshall-hall-symphony).
Title: Re: Marshall-Hall symphony in C minor (digital orchestral performance)
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 28 February 2018, 22:48
...available here, for example:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000026879/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000026879/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new)
Title: Re: Marshall-Hall symphony in C minor (digital orchestral performance)
Post by: sdtom on Thursday 01 March 2018, 14:05
avoid it
Title: Re: Marshall-Hall symphony in C minor (digital orchestral performance)
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 01 March 2018, 14:26
the synthesized performance or the Adagio coupled with the E-flat symphony? Which? "It" is not very specific.
Title: Re: Marshall-Hall symphony in C minor (digital orchestral performance)
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 01 March 2018, 14:40
Presumably the synth.
Title: Re: Marshall-Hall symphony in C minor (digital orchestral performance)
Post by: sdtom on Thursday 01 March 2018, 18:58
If you can listen for free go for it but I wouldn't buy it
Title: Re: Marshall-Hall symphony in C minor (digital orchestral performance)
Post by: Martin Eastick on Thursday 01 March 2018, 19:16
The only value of this new recording surely is to encourage a "real" performance/recording of the C minor symphony. Certainly the adagio movement as featured on the Move CD whets the appetite - and I am really surprised that the complete work was not included on this recording bearing in mind a total of just under 24 minutes playing time indicated on the new synthesized version, would have meant a total CD length of still under 60 minutes if both complete symphonies had been included! Still, we can perhaps live in hope.........
Title: Re: Marshall-Hall symphony in C minor (digital orchestral performance)
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Thursday 01 March 2018, 19:24
I agree - and hope I shall live long enough to see that "hope" fulfilled.