Leopold Stokowski - Walt Disney's Fantasia: Remastered Original Soundtrack Edition
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Free Music Review: Fantasia soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a massage therapist and i bought the cd to listen to while working on my clients and both me and my clients like it alot.Free Music Review: Brought back memories!
Hit: 5 Stars
Loved the cd. Was a bit scratchy, but reminded me of the many classical records I have. Wonderful addition to my collection!Free Music Review: Fantastic as expected
Hit: 5 Stars
The music is beautiful and the mix sounds great even cranked UP. Walt would be proud.Free Music Review: Too many reviewers are unaware of WHY this sounds like it does!
Hit: 4 Stars
Yes, it's poor-quality sound; originally recorded in the 1930s on FILM SOUNDTRACKS--not even 78 records! Recording tape had not even been invented yet. It was a huge experiment: Disney's engineers made a multitrack recording which was to be played through early 'surround-sound' speakers in large theaters. This predated regular stereo audio by 20 years. Sitting in a theater hearing the audio spill out all around you, bouncing around the room and intermingling with the sound from the other speakers, it was an awesome experience. Also, the original version had odd 'special effects' panning in some places, sending various parts of the orchestra sailing around the theater. Again, it was a cool effect in the room, but a 'real orchestra' could never do that.
Unfortunately, when all this is mixed down to a 2-track recording and presented in a clean digital format, every idiosyncrasy of the original recording is presented right along with it. 1930s film soundtracks are noisy and grainy-sounding. The oddball panning creates strange phasing problems. If you are expecting to hear a pristeen 'serious' recording, you will be disappointed. I hear it as a nostalgic recording, reminding me how it 'felt' to be in that theater watching such an important piece of cinematic history. I also approach it as a pioneering feat of technical production, given the time period from which it comes. It really doesn't deserve the trashing all these people are giving it. It is what it is, and it ain't what it aint! Don't expect a hamburger to taste like a steak.
Free Music Review: Still entertaining and enthralling, but...
Hit: 4 Stars
I'd rate each individual song as a perfect 5--because the film is also a perfect 5, a classic. But the problematic sound quality (only in the fact volume needs to be turned up way beyond most CDs due to its softness--and if you pull out the CD and have the radio on underneath the radio blasts freakin' loud) makes this soundtrack only 4 out of 5 stars. But it'd have been 5 out of 5 had the sound been produced better onto CD.