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Title: Good songs badly recorded
Review: Perhaps my system/ears/brain are too much hi-fi, but it is clear to this old man with diminished hearing that the melody-carrying single instruments are often projected at the listener too loudly when they do their thing. Can actually hear the shouty wind reeds buzzing at the level of all 30 accompanying instruments (no, not a bagpipe drone!) Upper bass is mixed too much forward and there is so much cumulating distortion that I donated this to the Salvation Army (keeping the rest of conductor I have loved in person Lockhart's work.) Still waiting for proper treatment of this fine body of music outside movie soundtracks themselves. Hollywood composers/recording engineers know to keep orchestra spacing in at least 3 of the 4 playback dimensions. (Here, the timing and/or pitch veer off occasionally--the 4th dimension does not hold.)
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