More of the music of Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Reviews and Commentaries for the music of Rimsky-Korsakov
- White Hot Stamper sound for Capriccio Espagnol, with a tremendously exciting performance
- Big stage, great ENERGY, lots of hall ambience and solid orchestral weight – hard to fault!
- Orchestral music doesn’t get much more EXCITING or COLORFUL than Capriccio Espagnol
- If you like Reiner’s Scheherazade – and who doesn’t? – you are sure to be knocked out by this recording
For your listening pleasure, we proudly offer our music loving fans a SUPERB sounding White Hot Capriccio Espagnol, performed with passion and precision by the Royal Philharmonic under the direction of Oscar Danon. This is only the second disc from a Reader’s Digest box set to make it to the site, but what a disc it is — orchestral music doesn’t get much more EXCITING or COLORFUL than Capriccio Espagnol. It’s truly a knockout on this pressing: White Hot Stamper As Good As It Gets sound.
This is what we mean by DEMO DISC sound. Records do not get much more spacious, open, transparent, rich or sweet. Kenneth Wilkinson was the man behind the board for many of these RDG recordings, this very one in fact, and as you will hear, he was pretty much in a league of his own as a engineer in the early days of stereo. This record is proof positive of his uncanny recording skills.
Play it against the best of the RCAs, Londons and Mercs from the period and you will see what I mean. And of course it will completely DESTROY any pressing you may have on Heavy Vinyl, from any label, at any playback speed, of any music. (more…)