Britten Four Sea Interludes - The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra - Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini’s recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra for EMI represent a distinctive alternative to Britten’s own composer-led performances. Where Britten favored immediacy and analytical clarity, Giulini pursued long-range continuity, tonal blend, and structural breadth. These interpretive priorities are closely aligned with the recording approach adopted at Kingsway Hall, whose natural acoustic was captured with a relatively recessed microphone perspective, emphasizing spatial coherence over instrumental spotlighting.
This reissue is intended to present these performances as they were conceived: spacious, coherent, and unforced, allowing Britten’s orchestral writing and Giulini’s architectural vision to speak through the natural acoustics of the recording environment.
Artist(s): Conductor - Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra - Philharmonia Orchestra
Recording Info: Engineer - Douglas Larter
Producer - Walter Legge
Recorded at Kingsway Hall, London, between October 12 and November 11, 1962.
This recording won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Classical Engineered Recording
It was also a nominee for Best Classical Performance - Orchestra at the same ceremony.
Sourced from a 4-track tape
Components used for Transfer: Analog: Transport - Nagra 4SJ modified with Flux Heads
Preamp - Custom Tape Pre-amp designed by Victor Khomenko of Balanced Audio Technology
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Power Conditioning: Shunyata Research Everest 8000 for all components with Shunyata Sigma-X Power Cords.
All components are grounded to Shunyata ALTAIRA Hubs
1 The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra 18:40
2 Four Sea Interludes Op.33A - From Peter Grimes 17:08
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