In Reply to: The Mayorga recording? posted by Botanico92007 on June 13, 2012 at 17:23:25:
I don't think I've heard the Mayorga recording. I have heard (and still own) the Ivan Davis / Maurice Peress recording of Rhapsody in Blue, which I believe also uses the original jazz band arrangement, and, as Seth notes below, sometimes the banjos (or maybe it's a single banjo) are/is very prominent.
Re the BIS sound - I haven't heard the Danças Brasileiras recording unfortunately. Most of the BIS recordings I have include their great Sibelius performances, as well as a lot of their Grieg SACD's - I also have their Sao Paolo Respighi trilogy. My feeling is that they're almost always above average and sometimes spectacularly good, but we may have just been listening to different repertoire - they have a pretty huge catalog.
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