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Title: Playing lets it down
Review: When I bought this CD, near the beginning of my classical listening career, my reaction was very negative, due to the very rough character of the orchestral playing. On revisiting this recording, I find a capable interpretation from the conductor, with fine, characterful instrumental soloists - but the ensemble playing is still very rough, to the point that it makes pleasurable listening difficult.This recording is attibuted to Henry Adolph, but I think this is a pseudonym for Anton Nanut, who recorded all the Mahler cycles with his Slovakian orchestra (I recommend his recordings of symphonies 1, 5 and especially 6). I discarded the Point Classics CD years ago, but I now have a recording of 4 on the Cantus label, credited to Nanut, which I believe is the same recording as this. I've heard mention of a Nanut recording that uses a boy singer, but it's a soprano on both this CD and the Cantus one.
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