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<b>Copland: <i>Appalachian Spring</i> (Suite), <i>Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson</i>, <i>An Outdoor Overture</i> (CD only)</b><br />Pacific Symphony Orchestra/Clark/Marni Nixon (soprano)<br />Reference Recordings LP RR-2 and CD RR-22CD. Tam Henderson, prod.; Keith Johnson, eng.
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This is unquestionably one of the best recordings Reference Recordings has done. The sound of the LP is up-front and quite bright, giving the orchestra that peculiarly nasal quality I usually associate with small French orchestras. There is truly remarkable detail and naturalness here; I was about to write that the recording makes the orchestra sound very small and pinched in <i>Appalachian Spring</i> when I noticed on the record jacket that this is the "Original version for 13 instruments." Okay, so I know what it costs to hire musicians in the US, but I still prefer the version of this work scored for full, bombastic, overblown 108-piece symphony orchestra. The 13 instruments are superbly balanced, though
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<b>Copland: <i>Appalachian Spring</i> (Suite), <i>Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson</i>, <i>An Outdoor Overture</i> (CD only)</b><br />Pacific Symphony Orchestra/Clark/Marni Nixon (soprano)<br />Reference Recordings LP RR-2 and CD RR-22CD. Tam Henderson, prod.; Keith Johnson, eng.
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This is unquestionably one of the best recordings Reference Recordings has done. The sound of the LP is up-front and quite bright, giving the orchestra that peculiarly nasal quality I usually associate with small French orchestras. There is truly remarkable detail and naturalness here; I was about to write that the recording makes the orchestra sound very small and pinched in <i>Appalachian Spring</i> when I noticed on the record jacket that this is the "Original version for 13 instruments." Okay, so I know what it costs to hire musicians in the US, but I still prefer the version of this work scored for full, bombastic, overblown 108-piece symphony orchestra. The 13 instruments are superbly balanced, though
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/recording-june-1987-copland-iappalachian-springi-etc]