Title: A must skip
Review: If you're looking for a GOOD quality performance of Pirates of Penzance this is not the recording for you. Having heard a few different recordings this one at times the orchestra is mediocre at best, and is off within themselves ( not train wreck off, but sometimes they are a 32nd to 16th off within parts). The brass at times overplays and is very blatty. The vocalists quite often sound very forced ( either the part is at the edge of their range and trying to force it out, or they are just shouting to try and sound louder ) At times the chorus parts are off just a smidgen ( both in notes and in timing ) which really stick out to a more trained ear. In the long run if your looking for a good quality performance this is not the one. Look into ones done by an actual opera company, for it is an operetta, not a musical.
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