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Review title: Great conducting, sad inaccurate singing
Product review: When this performance started coming out of my speakers, I was thrilled. Abbado conducts with a warmth, cohesion and tension that is wonderful to hear, and his orchestra is positively radiant. Unfortunately, the principal singers are not up to their roles. Grundheber barks menacingly but is extraordinarily sloppy and inaccurate with his note-values, making a mess of the title role; Hildegard Behrens, though more musically accurate, is about 20 years past her prime, and her voice wobbles all over the place.What I'm wondering is why the classic recording with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Evelyn Lear and the fabulous conducting of Karl Bohm (also on DG) is out of print. When it came out about 8 years ago, in a 3-CD set with "Lulu," I snapped it up, and have enjoyed it ever since.Save your money on this one. Look for a reissue of the Bohm set.
