On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:03:57 GMT, "Doug Kanter" wrote:

"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:50:39 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:
Put this in your CD player and turn the volume *way* up!

Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphony #3 "Organ" in C minor, Op. 78/Telarc
CD-80051
Michael Murray (organ), Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
--
John H

Goodbye speaker cones when the organ arrives, unless you've got a real
amplifier. :-)


Ain't it beautiful! *That* puts chills up and down my spine!
--
John H

It's fun to play it for people who only listen to Beatles.
"Hey....duh....that's the song from 'Babe the Gallant Pig'!"


Now there's a bit of trivia I didn't know. Thanks!

You never saw the movie???

Here's another for you:
"Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis"
by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Leonard Slatkin, St Louis Symphony Orchestra
Telarc CD-80059

There are other versions around, but they suck. Our local orchestra, the
Rochester Philharmonic, tried it once, conducted by Zubin Mehta. Even HE
screwed it up by moving it along too fast.

Just buy it. The rest of the CD's interesting, too. Especially "Irish Tune
from County Derry", by Percy Grainger. Also known as "Danny Boy". Take away
the weepy drunken Irish singer and it's quite a piece.


Never mind, it's on now. I love it. Actually, there are very few of the Telarc albums
I don't like, at least their early ones. I started buying them when they first put
out their infamous "1812 Overture" that few cartridges could handle.

Our local record store put all their Telarc CD's on sale, this was back in the early
80's, I think. They were on sale for half price, so I bought one of each (about 20).
The savings was enough to buy my first CD player, shortly after they came out. The
Telarcs were one of the few totally digital CD's available.
--
John H

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