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Aug 10, 2017 - 8:50 AM
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MusicMad
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As TG states ... there are more of us and I did have a look at your suggested Naxos/Chandos album. As with Film soundtrack albums, such compilations have their place and these have aided my appreciation of the wonderful music which, for many years, I passed by, shunning ... saying I much preferred the music of the late 20th Century written specifically for the cinema.
Today, my classical music collection - measured in playing time - far exceeds that of soundtrack (I use the generic term of classical to represent all such music written for the concert hall, church, whatever though accept there are occasions when the distinction is blurred ...)
But I've found that, these days, I prefer the full works so rarely listen to a compilation such as the one you highlight.
That said, I'm presently working through a 4CD compilation ... but this was a collection of works put together nearly 300 years ago by Georg Philipp Telemann given the title: Der getreue Music-Meister ... fascinating stuff (though my better half doesn't like the operatic works included therein too much!)
Mitch
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) to hear it. It's a monumental work that looks back rather than forward in style, and the version I listened to seemed to emphasise the Germanic rather than the Russian tradition. Might just have been my ears.