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Title: Unacceptable Recording Quality
Review: After listening to this set I was able see why Jon Vickers is considered the greatest Otello ever. This could have been the Otello to live with if it had not been presented in recording that sounds like being captured by a personal recording device (possibly portable). Voices come across as tolerable but orchestra and chorus sound unbearably dry and distorted all over.The only credit I can give to this set is that it led me to look for another set with Karajan, Vickers, and Freni in it, and I found one. It's from EMI. Now you have the recording of a deeply moving psychological drama completed with professinal engineering.
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