Gustav Holst, Richard Strauss - Holst The Planets Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra (SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel) (Very Good Plus (VG+))

Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)

Notes:

For its very first album on Chandos, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain devotes its characteristic energy and musical mastery to an explosive programme that transcends daily life and earthly experience. It is helped by the enthusiastic, encouraging, and experienced baton of Edward Gardner as well as by the sumptuous yet detailed acoustic of Symphony Hall, Birmingham, all fully revealed in this surround-sound recording.

Their performance of Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Holst’s The Planets is already a point of reference in the UK after the immensely successful Prom concert that preceded the recording. The concert’s five-star review in The Daily Telegraph praised in particular the orchestra’s ‘great attack and complete absence of anything routine’, while The Guardian emphasised the great performance of the orchestra in this ‘graceful and evocative programme’, especially the ‘depth and richness of sound that belied their youth’.

This unique album is a first milestone in what promises to be a superb discography for the NYO.

Total Time: 79:53

Microphones: 
Thuresson: CM 402 (main sound - are hand built by the designer, Jörgen Thuresson in Sweden)
Schoeps: MK22 / MK4 / MK6
DPA: 4006 & 4011
Neumann: U89

. Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TRV 176 (1896-96) 31:35
. Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op. 32, H 125 (1914-17) 48:01

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode 095115517925
Barcode 0 95115 51792 5
Label Code LC 7038

Recorded At Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Location : GRCDW242-2