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Title: This Turandot Stinks!
Review: Somebody should sue Alexander Rahbari for omitting important orchestral textures on purpose. Puccini's Turandot requires a really large orchestra, but this orchestra is so small that the rhythms are so small you can barely hear it. I cannot believe Alexander Rahbari was a student of Herbert Von Karajan and it was his and Alexander Rahbari's fault that their Turandot recordings sounded so weak and omitted every rhythmic texture that should be in there. Gunter Neuhold should've conducted this Naxos recording instead. To compare Gunter Neuhold's and Alexander Rahbari's Madame Butterfly recordings, Gunter Neuhold's orchestra is much larger than Alexander Rahbari's and gives Puccini the ultimacy of his 1904 version of Madame Butterfly. I could tell that Gunter Neuhold is a much more capable Puccini conductor than Alexander Rahbari.
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