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Review title: Slooow, with recording dynamic problems
Product review: I bought this in the two cd incarnation: Requiem, Pelleas et Melisande, Dolly, Melodies, Pavane. So the mastering may not be the same but the cd does not indicate any remastering.It's tedious. Giulini takes things very slow. The recorded dynamics are not good and I found myself running to my receiver turning it up and down -annoying. Yes, Battle has a pretty voice but it also has a hardness to it that I don't like. I prefer Lorraine Hunt (Lieberson) in Pelleas.If you want the quiet one, more in line with what Faure wrote try Cambridge Singer's on Collegium. For the suped-up mass orchestra version, I've enjoyed Wilcock's/Leger on EMI, Cluyten's on EMI, and Amsernt on London/Decca.
