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Catalog: ACD22570
Format: CD Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Yoav Talmi - ConductorJuno Award Nominee 2009 - Classical Album of the Year: Large Ensemble Performance
Yoav Talmi, meanwhile, has polished the Quebec Symphony’s sound like never before, and their new Bach transcriptions disc shows off this mettle. Listen to Stokowski’s transcription of BWV 565 with fresh ears, as Disney’s people never experienced it. Walton’s The Wise Virgins suite is welcome, particularly as Wordsworth’s 2003 recording is hard to find. Holst’s Fugue a la gigue is usually heard in its original wind band version. Elgar’s Victorian arrangement of BWV 537 sounds totally correct in this setting. Talmi himself arranged the Italian Concerto, with a solo harpsichord (Alexander Weimann). Webern’s transcription of the six-voice fugue will charm you and Respighi’s notable version of the Passacaglia and Fugue, done for Toscanini, is a fitting close. Highly recommended.
Reviewed by John S. Gray. Reprinted from The Wholenote Magazine (www.thewholenote.com), Nov. 2008.  Price: $20.98 |
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