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Title: A disappointment--slick packaging for lousy performances.
Review: Well, too bad. I LOVE Korngold, and was looking forward to this CD. But it doesn't live up to the GOLD CD hype. The violins are shrill, and can't seem to get out of the way of their own vibrati to play in unison. Certainly Newman should have got them working off the same cam shaft. I think you're much better off with, for instance, the CD of The Sea Hawk with Charles Gerhardt conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra.The one saving grace to these performances is the superior horn section. Nothing lacking there.For contrast to this gold CD, try listening to the opening titles of rented videocassettes--for instance Korngold's own recording of King's Row is vastly superior to this rendition.The liner notes for this CD make a big deal about the quality of the recording. But it's flat and thin. Just saying it's great doesn't make it so.
