Title: Detritus
Review: A great concept of a disk, let down with some truly miserable orchestral playing and some remarkably inept engineering.Peter and the Wolf has a very young narrator, Brandon De Wilde, who does okay, but I don't find engaging. Swarwosky is inept as an interpreter, and there is very little that is redeeming in the orchestra's playing. But compared to the Luxembourg group (which usually provides decent performances) in the Britten, they are superstars. The sound is so incredibly bad for the Saint-Saens, with a really wretched piano sound, little enjoyment is to be had (and the strings sound scrawny, too).Ugh. I recommend buying something else.
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