Negative Positive
Title: What a Quartet, What a Performance
Review: Very briefly, I own perhaps 4 or 5 performances of the great 9th. This one is surely the best. The orchestra, chorus, Mehta's interpretation, are all outstanding. But the quartet is the best I've ever heard, and no wonder, Vickers, Horn, Price, and Salminen. Few operas at the Met have such a wondrous cast. As for the sound, not having read the CD jacket, I was startled to hear applause at the end. No other hint 'til then that it was live. If fate deals you the sad hand of having only one performance of the ninth, this is the one to have. I hope you have a player on that desert island. Bill
Is the review positive or negative? 