Philip Goddard: Mount Everest - Summit Bid ('Cathedral' version)

Описание: IN A CATHEDRAL!
This is an additional version of the basic recording (   • Philip Goddard: Mount Everest - Summit Bid  ), with a very painstakingly worked-out cathedral-like acoustic applied to it, using the VST plugin OrilRiver.

The Composer’s aim was to avoid the normal wallowing swamp of reverb that one so readily creates with ‘cathedral’ presets in reverb units or plugins (or indeed hears in a real cathedral from positions well removed from the performers), and instead to emulate to the best of his ability the sort of sound you’d get when listening reasonably close to the ensemble, with walls some distance away, so that the foreground sound is relatively ‘dry’ and thus clear, and the main reverb that one hears therefore is more definitely in the background and not so inclined to overwhelm detail in denser textures or fast music.

Because the Composer is very familiar with Exeter Cathedral (UK), in which he sang in many concerts as a choir member, he has sought to emulate the sort of acoustic that he remembers hearing there from positions reasonably close to the orchestra / choir. Getting that sort of balance is in the essence of effective concert recording in a cathedral.
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'Mount Everest - Summit Bid', a symphonic poem for orchestra with organ, was the fruit of further experimentation by the Composer with the brief canonical rendering of a theme towards the end of his Second Symphony. Whereas in the symphony it was just a two-part canon, here it is four parts and makes for more varied and at times denser textures, cut with two chasms filled with a sense of the disasters awaiting those who dare to bid for 'the top', and preceded by a prelude giving some sense of the overall intimidating hugeness of the mountain undertaking.

The ending is a stern question mark, leaving the listener poised on the edge of a precipice. Life is full of unanswered and indeed often unanswerable questions! :-)

For more details of the work, please visit https://www.philipgoddard-music.co.uk... .

The composition is copyright Musik Fabrik Publishing (http://www.classicalmusicnow.com), and the video and audio recording is the Composer's copyright.
The Composer has posted this recording here with the express permission and encouraging words from the Publisher.

Please note that the audio in these videos is of MP3 128bps quality. If you want the best possible sound quality you'd need to buy the CD-quality download album.

The download album containing the basic (non-cathedral) recording is available from the Composer's Music Store, at http://www.philipgoddard.com/shop/mus... , and the Composer expects shortly to make the 'Cathedral' series available as FLAC-encoded downloads compiled into CD-size album groupings.
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THE VIDEO PHOTOS
They are both of Exeter Cathedral.

The exterior view is Copyright Philip Goddard, https://www.flickr.com/photos/philip_... .

The interior view is Copyright Jack Pease, https://www.flickr.com/photos/cathedr... . (For this use the photo brightness has been reduced to give a much more natural effect.)

Both photos are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution licence - please see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... for details of what use is / isn't allowed under that licence.
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BEST PLAYBACK VOLUME LEVEL == 3dB above normal