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Review title: Excellent performance, dissapointing recording
Product review: This is one of those works you have to listen to.The power of this piece is stunning and the performance brings to mind Giulini's Don Giovanni (done 10 years before and considered by many the best recording available of that opera).Despite this, the recording quality is very spotty - not only the audience noise mentioned by many reviewers but significant low frequency rumble. It almost sounds like it was transcribed from a disc on a budget turntable.The audience noise is, as many others have said, a part of the performance, and contributes to the immediacy of what you hear. It makes me aware that it is 1969, a year when the Viet Nam war was consuming much of our consciousness and a performance of this piece would have been especially poignant.Wonderful, if flawed recording.
