Title: Pitiful Essays/decent Knoxville
Product review: very sad to say it, but this orchestra which i've always admired puts in a very bad job of sightreading the 2nd and 3rd essays. unbelievable to me that marin and producers would allow these readings to go on disc. barber's 2nd essay is just about my favorite of his works to play and listen to and i was nearly sick at how lost various principals sound on this! knoxville is fine, but this disc pales in comparison for instance to Levi/Atlanta Symph/McNair.stay away from it as honestly Alsop only satisfies in this series with RSNO, on the Capricorn Cncto offering!!
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