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This Deutsche Grammophon disc, Le Sacre du Printemps -- Los Angeles Philharmonic, is issued to celebrate the opening of L.A.'s new concert venue, the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Disney is one of the most controversial structures to go into in the ground in the twenty first century, a twisted, semi-abstract edifice made of polished stainless steel and occupying 293,000 square feet with a seven-level parking lot below. Critics of the Frank Gehry-devised concert hall cum artwork ridiculed it as maximum ugly and overly expensive, and city leaders wondered if the inordinately bright building would need to be sandblasted so as not to blind pilots of commercial jet liners passing overhead.
Although Esa-Pekka Salonen has made a number of successful recordings with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for both Sony Classical and Deutsche Grammophon, they have either recorded them out of town or in UCLA's Royce Hall, as the other large concert venue in town, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, simply isn't a good venue for recording an orchestra. Disney Concert Hall was, in part, designed with that in mind.
Hopefully Deutsche Grammophon hasn't waited a bit too long to bring out this Super Audio CD of the first commercial recording made at the Disney. Comparatively, a 1964 RCA Victor LP commemorating the Chandler's opening appeared within mere days of the main event, and in some quarters is valued as a keepsake.
Nevertheless, the prognosis is good for the sound of Disney Concert Hall as a venue for recording the Los Angeles Philharmonic at home. The recording of Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain is truly wonderful stuff, as every measure of Mussorgsky's clotted and knotty but fearlessly innovative original orchestration is heard here in glassine detail. Percussion strokes are precise, the rendering of brass and wind has an almost photographic quality, and strings are heard as a wave of sound rather than as a mushy tangle of wire. This is one of the most stunningly realistic recordings ever made of a symphony orchestra.
The Bartók Miraculous Mandarin in its concert version is new to Salonen's recorded repertoire, and while it is a good performance, it's a little cold, which reflects Salonen's usual M.O. with Bartók. In this rendering of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps, Salonen is far more individual in his handling of the score and its effects, and the sound of Disney Hall almost seems to project Le sacre's extremes. Salonen delivers a performance that is far from the pristine, note-perfect recording by Pierre Boulez, closer in spirit to that of Igor Markevitch.
Salonen's rendering of the Stravinsky may not please all who hear it, but this is one of only a few orchestral discs in perhaps 25 years that is an imperative just by virtue of the sonic reproduction of the orchestra alone. Le Sacre du Printemps -- Los Angeles Philharmonic is provocative and intense and will give any decent home system a serious workout; like Disney Hall itself, it is a miracle of engineering.
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Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op. 19) - Suite (Béla Bartók)
Bela Bartok, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised Version For Orchestra (Published 1947) / Part 1: The Adoration Of The Earth (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised Version For Orchestra (Published 1947) / Part 2: The Sacrifice (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, MainArtist - Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, Surround Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Fred Vogler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
This Deutsche Grammophon disc, Le Sacre du Printemps -- Los Angeles Philharmonic, is issued to celebrate the opening of L.A.'s new concert venue, the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Disney is one of the most controversial structures to go into in the ground in the twenty first century, a twisted, semi-abstract edifice made of polished stainless steel and occupying 293,000 square feet with a seven-level parking lot below. Critics of the Frank Gehry-devised concert hall cum artwork ridiculed it as maximum ugly and overly expensive, and city leaders wondered if the inordinately bright building would need to be sandblasted so as not to blind pilots of commercial jet liners passing overhead.
Although Esa-Pekka Salonen has made a number of successful recordings with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for both Sony Classical and Deutsche Grammophon, they have either recorded them out of town or in UCLA's Royce Hall, as the other large concert venue in town, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, simply isn't a good venue for recording an orchestra. Disney Concert Hall was, in part, designed with that in mind.
Hopefully Deutsche Grammophon hasn't waited a bit too long to bring out this Super Audio CD of the first commercial recording made at the Disney. Comparatively, a 1964 RCA Victor LP commemorating the Chandler's opening appeared within mere days of the main event, and in some quarters is valued as a keepsake.
Nevertheless, the prognosis is good for the sound of Disney Concert Hall as a venue for recording the Los Angeles Philharmonic at home. The recording of Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain is truly wonderful stuff, as every measure of Mussorgsky's clotted and knotty but fearlessly innovative original orchestration is heard here in glassine detail. Percussion strokes are precise, the rendering of brass and wind has an almost photographic quality, and strings are heard as a wave of sound rather than as a mushy tangle of wire. This is one of the most stunningly realistic recordings ever made of a symphony orchestra.
The Bartók Miraculous Mandarin in its concert version is new to Salonen's recorded repertoire, and while it is a good performance, it's a little cold, which reflects Salonen's usual M.O. with Bartók. In this rendering of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps, Salonen is far more individual in his handling of the score and its effects, and the sound of Disney Hall almost seems to project Le sacre's extremes. Salonen delivers a performance that is far from the pristine, note-perfect recording by Pierre Boulez, closer in spirit to that of Igor Markevitch.
Salonen's rendering of the Stravinsky may not please all who hear it, but this is one of only a few orchestral discs in perhaps 25 years that is an imperative just by virtue of the sonic reproduction of the orchestra alone. Le Sacre du Printemps -- Los Angeles Philharmonic is provocative and intense and will give any decent home system a serious workout; like Disney Hall itself, it is a miracle of engineering.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:02
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
- Genre: Classical
© 2015 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin ℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
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