Monday, September 22, 2008

S hymnou po funuse

Spomienka na nedávnu olympiádu...
Today, a side-by-side comparison of Breiner's version, recorded by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the version being used at the Beijing medal ceremonies, recorded by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, reveals a few indubitable things. First, the Slovak orchestra is much better than the Beijing orchestra, which suffers from shrill upper-string sound. More to the point, the Beijing orchestra is using Breiner's ideas so blatantly that it would be accused of plagiarism if its arrangers submitted their orchestration as original work in any respectable conservatory.


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