ReviewThis is supposed to be about a woodland glade in spring etc. if you read the notes on the back... but to me, it feels like a perfect sea going symphony.
Although it starts quietly, and delicately, about twelve minutes in, the drama starts, with quite a strident piece, which you could imagine accompanying a movie scene aboard a galley or Tea Clipper, battling it's way through the foamy spume and rolling waves that crash upon the deck, while seamen, both able and otherwise are in the rigging and all that jazz (sorry - we're classical here aren't we!).
The vinyl is nice and as thick as the older vinyl issues from Deutsche Grammophon, although this being issued in 1968, it's not as stiff (a little flexibility is evident)... this must be due to the slightly different vinyl composition, as is evident in the fact that it doesn't have that "Rainbow Roll" * The older vinyls have.
But still a lovely vinyl that can handle the music on it, and even has quite a wallop in places... the kettle drums will make your speakers bulge satisfactorily ( first time I've attempted that word).
So hoist the, um... big (?) sail me 'arties...
(A couple of the little ones too if you would be so kind... thanks, that's just smashing!)
... and set your compass to adventurism... or if you want ot just take it as it is intended, go down to the woods today and be sure of a moderate surprise.
Arrrrrrrrr!
*(- A lovely term I've invented to describe the refractive quality that older vinyls have of splitting the reflection of a light source on the vinyl into it's constituent colours of the rainbow