2007-09-30
Disappointing
Fun as these transcriptions are, this is a disappointing set when compared to Serebrier's recent set of Stokowski's Bach transcriptions with the same orchestra. The sound is too closely miked and doesn't allow Wagner's ingenious orchestration to breathe in the way that it should. The playing itself is fine, but there isn't a sense of the scale which these works demand. That said, the Magic Fire Music is spellbinding.