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Holst: The Planets.(Sound Recording Review)
Holst: The Planets. Walter Susskind, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Mobile Fidelity UDSACD 4005.
Mobile Fidelity, having largely moved away from gold discs and on to Super Audio CDs, found some good source material in the performance of Walter Susskind conducting Gustav Holst's The Planets.
The first and only time other time I heard this recording was almost 30 years ago when it first appeared on a Vox/Turnabout LP in the mid seventies. It was during the quadraphonic era, and Vox had intended this production to be played back in four channels. But I heard it in ordinary two-channel stereo where the rear channels had apparently been folded into the front channels, blurring the sound considerably. Not being too impressed by the sonics at the time, I quickly forget about the performance. Now that I am able to hear it in cleaner stereo, I regret not giving the performance more credit.
Mo-Fi is producing hybrid two-channel/multi-channel discs, so a person can listen to The Planets with or without an SACD player or rear channels. The two-channel sound is better focused now, and I was delighted by Susskind's interpretation. "Mars" begins things with a zesty, saucy bravado; Holst is said to have wanted ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Holst: The Planets.(Sound Recording Review)