Title: Barely acceptable, not impressive
Product review: This is a recording of the play performed in Santa Monica, California, under what were apparently less than ideal circumstances. None of the three performers sounds even vaguely Hispanic, and some of their acting is quite strained. I heard a copy which had undoubtedly been much-played and which had been subject to who-knows-what storage conditions, but the audio quality was atrociously bad: all of the sound had a "shadow" running several seconds ahead of the main presentation of audio. Schubert's titular quartet (which appears on the tape one generation down, out of necessity, since it "appears" as an audio tape played during the recording of the play) did not sound as if it had been performed by top drawer musicians; this may have been a fault of the poor sound quality, but it didn't move me as it should have. The motion picture is much, much MUCH better than this recording of the play.
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