Three New ORG/Decca Releases Coming Soon

[MylesBAstor]

Did anyone catch that ORG/Bernie Grundman will be reissuing three titles from the Decca catalog? They are:

Mendelssohn: Symphony #3 with Maag
Falla: Three Cornered Hat with Ansermet
Albeniz: Suite Espanola with de Burgos

All three will be double albums remastered at 45 rpm

Two things of interest:

1. They are using the London, not the original Decca releases artwork;
2. Why of all the recording in the Decca vaults, did they pick these? The first two may be good performances but they're are definitely nothing to write home about sonically. OK, maybe I'll be proven wrong by the reissues. The last, Suite Espanola, is obviously on HPs list but music aside, I don't think its sonics ranks among the best of the Deccas. I've an ED1 of this recording, the TP release and both have the same sort of thin and bright character to them. (the Hindemith VC is far and away a better sounding Decca releaase).

Why they didn't pick recordings like the Martinon Ibert Divertissiment, Espana, Varese, Maazel Feste Romane, Britten's Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra, the Monteux Daphnis and Chloe, etc. baffles me.

 

[RBFC]

The horn bursts on Fruhbeck de Burgos' Asturias are probably one good reason for Super Disc status. Overall, I don't think it is consistently "great".

I'd rather see the Ibert Bacchanale, the Varese, the Britten (amazing recording), and others before these choices.

Maazel's Feste Romane was a knockout on the MFSL UHQR pressings I had. Another one to look out for is Maazel's Romeo and Juliet ballet score by Prokofiev.

Lee