Even at the time of streaminga disc remains a disc, in the same way that, in a book, we do not print the last chapter before the first and we do not put drawings by Gaston Lagaffe in the middle of the journey to the Edge of the Night. The NAC Orchestra really has a major problem with the recording object. A fascinating musician, Alexander Shelley has lots of ideas, which work well “in real life”, when he is there to explain them and bring them to life. But juxtaposing things on a cake that we listen to at home doesn’t work. The presence of the 13e Symphony of Glass, commissioned and created by the NAC, involves this edition at Orange Mountain. But the “highlight” is relegated to the end, the CD is immediately weighed down by a musical “haiku” from the 150e Canada’s birthday, before four minutes of poetry unrelated to the 9e by Shostakovich which follows. And that’s what you have to buy to achieve happiness: Concerto by Korngold by James Ehnes! How was it possible to transform a 9e by Shostakovich who has such an impact in theaters in something so flatly banal?
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