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Review by flyingdutchman July 18, 2003 (2 of 4 found this review helpful)
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Wonderfully alive, full, and vivid recordings. The BIS team captures the orchestra beautifully and without any extreme reverberation or dryness. Of course, I love this music. The melodies and lyrical elements are beautiful and Ruud and his orchestra are obviously the right folks to do this music justice.
Buy this w/o regret. It is a beautiful disc.
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Review by beardawgs November 30, 2003 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
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Nothing more to add to Dutchman and Paul, the recording is fantastic and the quality of music… well, these are not the pieces that made Grieg such a popular composer. Two sets of dances are actually more tiring experience, and if it’s not for the excellent playing and even better recording, they would be dead boring. Movements from the Lyric suite are based on Lyric pieces for piano solo, that’s Grieg at his best, but I still prefer the piano original. Overall, a rather non challenging intellectual experience and I presume this will end up as a nice background-dinner-party-wall-paper music in our case.
Apparently, this is just the beginning of the complete Grieg’s orchestral series on BIS. Well done so far, keep ‘em coming!
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Review by nickc April 26, 2004 (1 of 2 found this review helpful)
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| Top notch recording and performance of some admittedly not top notch Grieg. Sound in multi-channel expands gloriously to fill your room. Cellos and basses I have noticed especially seem to benefit from the dsd treatment and, like in the Philips Sibelius violin concerto, you can almost feel what I will call a black mass of sound emanating from your right hand speakers.
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