| RECORDINGS |
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| LABEL: |
THE
MUSICAL MASTERPIECE SOCIETY
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| CATALOG
NUMBER: |
MMS-2019
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| UPC
NUMBER: |
N/A
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| NUMBER OF DISCS: |
2
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| RUNNING TIME: |
UNKNOWN
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| YEAR
RECORDED: |
195?
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| CD
RELEASE DATE: |
N/A
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| CONDUCTOR: |
WALTER
GOEHR
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| ORCHESTRA: |
NETHERLANDS
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
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| CHOIR: |
UNKNOWN
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| SOPRANO: |
ADRIENNE
COLE
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| CONTRALTO: |
WATTY
KRAP
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| TENOR: |
LEO
LARSEN
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| BARITONE: |
GUUS
HOEKMAN
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| AUDIO SAMPLES |
HIGHLIGHTS |
OTHER
RELEASES |
NONE
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NONE
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DISC ONE
A1
Sinfonia
A2 Comfort Ye
A3 Ev'ry
Valley
A4 Thus Saith The Lord
A5 But Who May Abide
A6 Behold, A Virgin Shall
Conceive
A7 O Thou That Tellest
B1 For Behold
B2 The People That
Walked
B3 For Unto Us
B4 Pastoral
Symphony
B5 There Were
Shepherds
B6 Glory To
God
B7 Then Shall The Eyes
B8 He Shall Feed His
Flock
B9 Behold The
Lamb
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DISC TWO
C1 All They That See Him
C2 He Trusted In God
C3 Thy Rebuke
C4 Behold And See
C5 He Was Cut Off
C6 But Thou Didst Not Leave
C7 Lift Up Your Heads
C8 Why Do The Nations
C9 Let Us Break
C10 He That Dwelleth in Heaven
C11 Thou Shalt Break Them
D1
Hallelujah
D2 I Know That My Redeemer
D3 Since By
Man
D4 Behold, I Tell You A
Mystery
D5 The Trumpet Shall
Sound
D6 Worthy Is The Lamb
D7 Amen
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SITE RATING: 5/10
SITE
REVIEW: One of
those mysterious releases that has no
provenance, no date, and few searchable
names to ascribe to it, this two-LP box set,
ostensibly from the Musical Masterpiece
Society, and conducted by Walter Goehr, it
features an earnest performance which I can
only say sounds like it might be from the
mid-fifties, based entirely upon its sound,
tempos, and the artists involved. For
example, the most famous artist here, Guus
Hoekman (misnamed as "Hoeckman" on the
Classics Club* London cover) was a Dutch
bass who was active from 1952 through 1984;
soprano Adrienne Cole appeared in the August
1956 edition of BBC Proms; tenor Leo Larsen
sang on a couple of other LP releases of
Bach and Verdi, and alto Watty Krap only
appears on this release. Walter Goehr
of course conducted another "mystery"
Messiah release here,
but with a different set of soloists.
Increasing the confusion, the alternate
release of this album on the Classics Club *
London label uses a couple of completely
fictitious names - changing the conductor
from Walter Goehr to 'William Stellar' and
the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra to
the 'Opera Classica Society of New York!' It's
maddening. Regardless of the
obfuscation and flummery, this is a
competent, typical release for the era;
everything is played at a stern, deliberate
tempo, the singers are all proficient and
heavily operatic, reveling in wide vibratos
and declamatory stances; and the orchestra
and chorus are similarly thick and
earnest. Lacking any definitive proof
of when, where or who the actual artists
involved were, I feel no qualms about
committing it to the middle of the heap in
both desirability and worth.
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