Back in the 60's while in high school my parents gave to me as a gift the original LP of this music. Being a clarinet player in HS and All-City Bands I was immensely interested in this music and played the LP many times over the years. I acquired the Mercury Living Presence CD of most of this music in the 90's. The Granger Hill Song was not included but Mennin, Persichetti and Reed were on the disc along with Holst and VW. This is the CD with a cover showing a line of horsemen with red coats. Then a few months ago I saw this CD, the one under review, available, but quite expensive. I already had most of the tracks on the Horseman CD, but I wanted a CD with the picture like on my old LP: yellow, with red titles. Checking frequently I saw that it had come down in price- but still more than I wanted to pay, but got it anyway. Now I see that it's a Japanese knock-off, not MLP, without even any text- just a little Japanese. At least the disc itself looks like an MLP. I had photographed the cover of my old LP and was going to print it 5 x 7 to stick on the front of my Horseman CD when I sent for this expensive facsimile. It's OK but I'm not really pleased with it. Should have known from the product description which did not say Mercury but some Japanese thing instead.
Eine schöne monaurale (die rückseitigen Angaben stimmen nicht!) Einspielung der zwei Suiten für Militaryband von Gustav Holst, welche aber auch als Decca Übernahme der Mercury Aufnahme bei Eloquence Australia in fast ebenso gutem Klang deutlich billiger zu haben sind. Diese Einspielung ist auch deshalb kein Muss, weil Frederick Fenell die Werke für Telarc mit dem Cleveland Bläsern nochmals eingespielt hat: Differenzierter und in digitalem Stereo. Zudem gibt es Dennis Wick mit Londoner Bläsern (ausgezeichnet), die Royal Norwegian Navy Band (ein MUSS für Fans, schon wegen der sonst nie gehörten Werke von Holst), ebenso sehr gut die North Texas Wind Symphony.
Nur so als Tipp: Holsts "Hammersmith" allerdings ist mit Fennell grandios (in Stereo auf einer anderen Mercury CD)!
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