The Chicago Principal: First Chair Soloist Play Famous Concertos

Release Date: 2003-04-08, Audio CD, Deutsche Grammophon

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Posted: Oct-17-2007

A 2-CD CONCERTO SET THAT STRIKES ALL THE RIGHT NOTES

IN A NUTSHELL: PRINCIPAL CSO PLAYERS PERFORM A DIVERSE SELECTION OF CLASSICAL CONCERTOSI thought I was looking for gifts, but actually I ended up purchasing some classical CD recordings for myself. Here's why I selected this set.This is a 2-CD set that is dedicated to presenting the classical...

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Posted: May-08-2007

Nice collection

Great collection of concerti, some very familiar, some less so. Shortly after purchasing this double CD I had the chance to see the Chicago Symphony perform in Sarasota. Fun to see the principles at work on stage.

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Posted: Nov-16-2006

A world class collection!

It's not every day that you come across a recording that showcases as many elite calibur musicians as this collection does. Not only do you get some of the best names in the CSO, but you also get a tremendous diversity of musical genres to explore the viruosity. Being a horn player myself, I...

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Posted: Jul-01-2005

First chair players top notch in a top notch orchestra

To be completely honest, this album did not interest me at first, even though I am the biggest CSO fan ever. The only reason I stumbled upon it was because I was browsing in a bad CD collection. All they had was generic, tripe recordings of most everything. Well, when I saw this I picked it up...

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Posted: May-04-2005

Must-have for CSO fans

Recently I had an opportunity to meet with the legendary Bud Herseth, and I wanted a CD to get an autograph. But which one? The fabled archetype of the first trumpet, Herseth is on every recording the CSO made since he started in 1948 until he retired just a couple of years ago. If you want to...

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Posted: Apr-14-2004

Absolutely fantastic

As a horn player, I must unobjectively confess that there is something quite magical about the work of Dale Clevenger and the CSO horn section from the 70s and 80s.Perhaps the predigital recording technology during this timeleft a little to the listeners imagination. Perhaps the virtuosity and...

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Posted: Jun-24-2003

Good CD

The types of people who will buy the CD are the people who know exactly what they're getting, and what they're looking for (i.e., music performance students and aficionados of the CSO). For them, any introduction to this music is hardly necessary. Jacobs' rendition of the Vaughan-Williams tuba...

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Posted: May-01-2003

Top Shelf Performers of Top Shelf Pieces

Principals of first class symphony are here gathered in some exciting solo work done with Chicago Symphony, in the years 1977-84.Superb is each of them, but especially enjoy Sill's magnificent phraising of Mozart's Concerto in C Major and the Konzertruch in F Major by Schumann, as well as Willard...

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