Title: Still sounds bad after all these years!
Product review: Without a doubt, this is the most unspectacular reading and recording of Ferde Grofe's otherwise-classic light music suite, "Grand Canyon." Much of the problem lies with Grofe's indifferent conducting; the rest lies with a drab and poorly balanced recording quite atypical of the label, Everest. Everest produced a number of sonic masterpieces around the same time (1960), so what happened here? The "Concerto for Piano in D minor" is interesting only as a stab at traditional composition by Grofe. Otherwise, the listener is at least eight bars ahead of the composer most of the way in this beautifully-written but vapid work. More invovled conducting would have helped, a lot.
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