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Title: moves to the top of the list
Review: When I buy a work not already in my collection, I usually buy one or two benchmark recordings by those people whom I have come to trust over the years. Thus when I finally time to buy Haydn's masterpiece, I bought the Gardner set and, because it was such good value, the Willcocks rendition. Each was thoroughly enjoyable in its own right. But I could not escape the attention being paid to this new version. So I bouht this one also. If anything, the singing is more beautiful than on the two prior ones. Certainly, the duets are more expressive and provide agreter sense of intimacy. I think that Naxos has here exceeded its own very well established reputation for searching out uinkwon (to American listeners) performers who sing and play music at a very high level. This production of The Creation, can hold its own with anything out the. Truly a masterpiece of the recorsding art. Highly recommeded, either alone or along side other versions in a collection.
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