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Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Four Sea Interludes.(Edward Benjamin Britten)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)

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Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Four Sea Interludes. Elgar: Enigma Variations. Paavo Jarvi, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Telarc CD-80660.

Call this one the return of the big bass drum. Telarc engineers made quite a name for themselves in the early days of digital recording with the sound of their bass, but for whatever reason the famous Telarc low end seems to have diminished somewhat in the past decade. Not here. The bass is back with a vengeance.

First, a word about the performances. Jarvi offers up acceptable if slightly unresponsive renditions of these well-worn British warhorses. Of the three sets of variations presented--Britten's Young Person's Guide, with its emphasis on highlighting different instruments of the orchestra; his impressionistic Four Sea Interludes from the opera Peter Grimes; and Elgar's Variations on an ...

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