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Post Subject: Bach by Ormandy’s Philadelphia OrchestraPosted by Romy the Cat on: 7/16/2009

This record I play a lot lately - insanely gorgeous music and very seriously played music. It is the Eugene Ormandy’s own transcriptions of Bach celebrated toccatas and the passacaglia, along with the Symphony for Double Orchestra. Generally I tend to like the older mono recording of Ormandy with Philadelphia, this one is the later stereos record. It looks like the idiots from Columbia were drunk and did not vandalize this recording too much; thanks to them it is listenable.

I can’t not imagine that it is possible to orchestrate Bach with more wisdom and to preform it with more beauty then what Ormandy did at this recording. This record is a great indication of what “progress” in music is all about. A 20 minutes of listening of THIS music and THIS play seriously detoxicate and degaussong me from anything that come after, would it be music composition or performing manners…

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