EMI ASD 2961 SIBELIUS: THE TEMPEST & IN MEMORIAM
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Dec 19, 2007 Sold Date
Dec 12, 2007 Start Date
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 SIBELIUS

THE TEMPEST

Incidental music to Shakespeare's play

IN MEMORIAM

Funeral March

ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

CONDUCTED BY

SIR CHARLES GROVES

EMI ASD 2961

STEREO

 

1973 Original EMI record. UK pressing with black-and-white dog in postage stamp label.       The LP is MINT and appears unplayed. Surfaces are smooth and retain their original         lustre. There is no sign of spider tracery around the spindle hole. The jacket is MINT. Lamination on the front is fully intact, while the back is spotlessly clean.

Charles Groves is not a conductor usually associated with Sibelius; any number of modern British composers, 'yes' but not Sibelius. It was not his metier. Or at the very least his style at first hearing seems out of sync with the composer's spirit. You expect                a chill, a freshness, a shiver, a luminous glow in the darkness, none of which are quite         what Groves and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic have in mind.

Groves' In Memoriam though notable for some shuddering outbursts dallies between            security and instability; too tentative for its own good. There are no concessions to                    theatre or parade ground grief in this piece.

The Tempest music, like the Funeral March filler, is beautifully recorded on this record.         Compared to Beecham's famous performance, however, Groves is lighter in weight but            not superficial.  Compared to Boult's Tempest Prelude Groves' is rather too refined and        nearly loses touch with the angry emotional pulse. Don't misread me as dismissive of            Groves. He has a different take on Sibelius to which we're accustomed, neither better              nor worse than other conductors' readings, just refreshingly different. There are some         lovely moments in the performance (try Side One, Band 2 - entr'acte) but the pull is               more toward a soft-edged panorama than a sharp close-up. When I compare this                       lovingly recorded version with the affable Beecham account, Sir Thomas delivers one          imaginative coup after another--surprising and delighting in music that is already                    familiar. Groves is more detached and pleases but neither terrifies nor delights; the             emotional compass is narrower.

If your preferences in Sibelius run to the more relaxed, smooth and loquacious then            Groves will be for you. Apparently it satisfied Harry Pearson, who put the record on                 his Super LP List in The Absolute Sound.  Since then it has become hard to find and        its price continues to rise. Don't let this rarity slip by.

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