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Title: Fine playing, dreadful sound
Review: I agree with a couple of the other comments here - fine playing is let down by truly awful sound. What on earth are Hyperion playing at? I notice that the rot set in when Tony Faulkner was replaced by Simon Eadon on piano recordings. The sound is thin and completely unresonant in the bass, and some kind of dreadful digital, piercing, pianola-like plinkety plonk in the treble. Just listen to the closing minute or so of the fourth scherzo! It is such a shame as the sound on Hough's earlier recordings for Hyperion was exemplary (listen to the Liszt sonata and the Franck discs for example).
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