Title: A Bargain at the Price
Product review: Looking over the liner notes as I prepared to start writing this review, I noted that how fitting it seemed that this music was recorded in November, that month of impending darkness and sorrow. This is a wonderful recording, with excellent singing, expressive playing, and vintage sound quality. For me, the ultimate Das Lied recording is the Klemperer on EMI, but this Reiner-led performance is in the same league. Both singers are admirable, the orchestra is superb, and the somewhat archaic quality of the recording adds to the poignancy and longing of the music. This release is a bargain at the price. I auditioned the CD stereo layer, but there is a three-channel SACD layer for those whose systems include a center channel.
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