Score: 7
"Not bad, just needs fine-tuning"
date: March 17, 2009
As the reviewer below me duly noted, it isn't easy to convert what you here to notes you can read to music on your desktop. And, in that, you did pretty damn well if I do say myself.
The big plus is the faithfulness and accuracy you did this with: having listened to DotF more times then my neighbors can tolerate, I could detect no false or misplaced note- something that says no small deal about the fine nature of your ear and your mastery in "virtual conducting."
The fly in the ointment- and sadly I would have to say it is not exactly a small one- is that (like other people have said) this piece is badly missing the power- the OOOMPH- that so immortalized the original. And it is this fault that has caused me to knock this otherwise prestine track down three stars: because without the ability to interject the low lows and the HIGH highs, it isn't Duel of the Fates, just a very faithful and well-done but sadly inferior version of it.
However, if you could replicate that, the rise and the fall of the original piece- there is no way in heck that I could give this less then a ten.
On the whole: not bad, not bad at all, and a very fine testanment to your skill. However, if I do say so myself, I hope you might come back to DotF some time and redo this, for it is hardly a poor jump-off point for a future rendition, one that- if given that defining OOMPH- would easily win out.
But, on the whole, quite a good showing.
