Title: another humorous Anthony Newman cd
Product review: This cd is a nice collection of music for the organ. It includes Liszt, his premiere student, Reubke, and the usual French organ suspects.His tempi is always faster than normal. I have concluded he is challenging the boring "funeral parlor" image of the trudging organ sound that filled so many a people's minds and previous associations with organ music. This is all fine and dandy, but his music lacks soul, expression, and musical sense, not to mention acoustical considerations of the space.He's clearly well trained and has played a lot of rep, but I feel as if he's played this rep too much to the point where it is a mechanical action rather than a special event in his quotidian routine.If you want to hear agitated and lightning speed recordings of this music, by all means, buy it. If you want good organ playing, buy another recording.
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