Anatole Fistoulari / Royal Opera House Orchestra Covent Garden – Walton: Façade; Lecocq: Mamzelle Angot [Stereo] (Analogue Productions RCA/Decca Living Stereo Series Edition)
(AAA) — Lacquers cut from the original analog master tapes by Willem Makkee at Greenlight Studio.
$40.00
Product Description
Mastered by Willem Makee from the original master tapes
Antole Fistoulari conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden performing Sir William Walton's Façade and Charles Alexandre Lecocq's Mamzelle Angot. Working with the Royal Ballet Orchestra in Covent Garden under Fistoulari, engineer Ken Cross and producer Michael Williamson created another Decca/RCA masterpiece. It's hard to know where to begin with a record this good. The top — the high end — of this recording is simply as well recorded as any RCA there is.
Undeniable transparency, snap, detail and body on cymbals, bells and woodblocks. The same virtues, along with the added virtue of harmonic richness extends into the midrange. Strings are sweet, diaphanous, transparent and a bit bright, without being irritating. Brass and woodwinds — which in this piece carry much of the thematic load — are particularly well reproduced.
Recorded in Walthamstow Assembly Hall
Producer: Michael Williamson
Engineer: Ken Cross
(Above description from AcousticSounds.com)
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Composition | Façade, for reciter & ensemble [Walton], Façade, Suite No. 1, for orchestra [Walton], Façade, Suite No. 2, for orchestra [Walton], Mam'zelle Angot, ballet [Lecocq] |
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Accolade | The Absolute Sound Super LP List [2023], The Absolute Sound Super LP List [2025] |
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- Acoustic Sounds
- AllMusic Biography (Anatole Fistoulari)
- AllMusic Biography (Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra)
- AllMusic Biography (William Walton)
- AllMusic Biography (Charles Lecocq)
- AllMusic Review (Composition: Façade)
- AllMusic Review (Composition: Mam’zelle Angot)
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