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Haydn, Joseph: Symphony Number 92.(Symphony Number 92)(Video Recording Review)
plus the Arianna a Naxos and Scena di Berenice cantatas. Concentus Musicus Wien, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, featuring Ceclia Bartoli. Recorded and filmed "live" in at the Styriarte Festival, in Graz, Austria, 2001. Multiple engineers and mixers. Done in Dolby Digital surround at 448 kbps, DTS surround at 709 kbps, and two-channel PCM. Video in 16:9 widescreen. 83+ minutes, counting extras. BBC Opus Arte 870.
The "extras" mentioned above include excerpts from the rehearsal (including Ms. Bartoli and Mr. Harnoncourt discussing Haydn), plus a short film about the Styriarte Festival founded by Harnoncourt in the city of Graz. A short Mozart piece is also included. While the disc proper offers the three sound options noted above, all of the extras are in standard two-channel PCM sound.
Recording a live concert is always problematical, because decent engineering work may require that microphones interfere with audience pleasures. That does not seem to be the case here, although since this is a "period" instrument ensemble the sound seems thinner and less full bodied than what some listeners might be used to. The soundstage is moderately wide and the tonal qualities, ...
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