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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, complete. Maurice Abravanel, Utah Symphony Orchestra. Amadeus AMD 7005/6 (2-disc set).(Review)
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, complete. Maurice Abravanel, Utah Symphony Orchestra. Amadeus AMD 7005/6 (2-disc set).
Longtime producer and president of Vanguard Classics, Seymour Solomon, prefaces this edition of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake with the following statement, quoted in part: "I have been persuaded to issue a new label that comprises the Seymour Solomon Collection, some of my favorite recordings made during the 50 years that Vanguard Classics and the Bach Guild have existed. Some are unique because of an outstanding performance, some because of the repertoire, or some because I just plain like them." Carrying the new Amadeus trademark, these reissues are to be included in the producer's own prestigious line of favored releases, among the first of which is this Tchaikovsky.
There is no question the sonics on this 1967 recording are still outstanding, admirably clear and notably clean. The orchestra is miked fairly close-up, revealing the kind of ...
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- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John June 1, 1999 700+ words
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...Giselle commands the same reverence as Swan Lake, and even Giselle is not so readily...ballet in the public consciousness as is Swan Lake. Would it, for example, have struck...This raises the question: what is Swan Lake? In a way this is a harder question...
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