Title: Terrible sound.... avoid this one!
Product review: I was very disappointed with the inferior quality of the recorded sound in this set. I was looking forward to hearing Gobbi's Don Giovanni, especially with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as Donna Elvira and Ljuba Welitsch as Donna Anna. This recording was made from a live performance at Salzburg in 1950, with Furtwangler conducting. The overture begins with distortion that's impossible to eliminate, even by adjusting the treble, and things don't get much better as the opera continues. EMI has issued this same performance in the past, and perhaps their source material was better than whatever was used for this remastering, but unless you don't mind substandard sound, steer clear of this one.
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