The Organ Amateur on YouTube

I am still catching up with trends on the internet. This time it is YouTube. Go to my channel here. There is a video there too!!!

Bad Messiah...

I was let into temptation of buying a Messiah DVD, and I did it. I fell for the trademark of the Choir of King's College Cambridge. This a live recording from 1994 in the Pieterskerk, Leiden, The Netherlands, on the Brilliant Classics label. Brilliant is of course not a quality label, I knew that. I did buy a big Bach CD box from Brilliant many years ago, and I have not yet listened to all of it... There are mainly two reasons why I don't recommend this DVD. The first is that the sound production is really bad. The use of dynamical compression is just so heavy that I feel sick listening to it more than 5 minutes. The second reason is that the sopranos is not singing very well. Some them aren't singing at all, in fact. They just move their lips. It is a bit disappointing to observe King's College Choir being like other average choirs, as their reputation is almost flawless. It is not worth the money to buy this DVD, even if it's cheap.