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Title: Irregular performance, awful sound
Review: I couldn't agree more with the previous commenter (except for his generous rate of two stars): The tempi which Previn chooses are too slow (for a score that has precise metronome marks),and there are phrasing errors here and there, obnoxious glissandi in the violins that simply shouldn't be there and some messy passages one wouldn't expect from The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with such a conductor.But the worst of all is the sound, which is normalized, so from mf to fff don't expect any dynamic change: it just won't sound louder but "pushed down". And the transfer from tape to DVD is very disappointing too. I think the tune problems Mr. VanStryland found are actually speed irregularities in the original tape which make listening a true torture.
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