Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Orfeo

Orfeo

Sadly, it looks like we're going to end up delisting Trisdee's other work, however when I went to her page, I stumbled upon this piece. It seems to be of a high performance standard, and I can't find any flaws with it. It's used on the featured article L'Orfeo, and it has a well built and informative information page.

• Nominate and support. Sven Manguard Wha? 08:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
• Support—It's meant to be a rustic scene when the curtain opens, so a certain rude, uneven tone is fine. It's a bit unrelentingly robotic, against what might otherwise have been just a little give and take; but since it's all on the tonic triad over a (rustic) pedal-point, I don't think this is too much of an issue. PS, isn't it 1607, not 1807? Tony (talk) 08:52, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
• Comment—There are several flaws in this performance, most of which can be forgiven since it's part of a rustic scene. However, I'm more concerned about the sloppiness with the rhythms:
  • The first trumpeter does not hit the f-sharp correctly at 00:20
  • The violin screeches on the "E" at 00:45
  • At 00:50, the violinist does not execute what is apparently two consecutive eighth notes correctly; it sounds sloppy
  • At around 01:11–01:12, the first trumpeter again doesn't execute the set of four consecutive semiquavers correctly
  • At 01:15/01:16, the lower trumpeter comes in late ... it sounds like the trumpet is playing triplets where it should be three consecutive eighth-notes
  • At 01:18, when both trumpets are playing an A at the same time, one of them is rather sharp. Graham87 09:14, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
• Support I listened to this looking at Graham87's comments. While I agree that the performance is not without its flaws, its a fine recording of Monteverdi, and I think its less than perfect parts can be forgiven. Major Bloodnok (talk) 19:52, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Promoted File:Orfeo - Toccata.ogg