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On Monday, March 22, 2021 at 12:01:19 PM UTC-10, MELMOTH wrote:
> I'll be brief for once...Old age is a shipwreck, as you well know...
> In ascending order of my preferences (I only chose 8 versions among the
> hundred or so in my collection):
>
> - *Armin JORDAN* (Erato 1988)...Not bad, without more...A little
> contemplative...
> - *Pierre BOULEZ* (DG 1991)...Nice sound......But not much magic, I
> find...
> - *Paul PARAY* (Mercury 1959)...Light features, pottoresque
> strings...And obviously Mercury sound recording...
> - *Claudio ABBADO* (DG 1998)...Nice balance between details and
> fullness of sound...
> - *Jean MARTINON* (Erato 1974)...Beautiful colors...Daydreaming...
> - *Guido CANTELLI* (EMI 1954)...Obvious ease...Voluptuousness...
> - *Simon RATTLE* (EMI2004)...Subjugating...Beautiful orchestral
> alchemy...Erotic apotheosis!...
> - *Pierre MONTEUX* (Decca 1961).... Why ?...Because it is Pierre
> MONTEUX, quite simply, and it is the best, inevitably...
>
> Obviously, there is also
> Stokowsky...Ansermet...Toscanini...Beecham...Markevitch..Mravinski and
> others
> Inghelbrecht...Silvestri...Baudo...Fournet...Lombard...Prêtre...Plasson...And
> a lot of others...

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Tinnitus Classics Presents: Debussy's True "Afternoon of a Faun"

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