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Title: My least favorite recording
Review: This certainly is a good example of how subjective music perception can be or how random music reviews can be. I bought this CD after reading all the incredibly positive reviews here. After listening to it, I couldn't be more disappointed and embarrassed. I find some songs here excruciatingly slow and drawn out. I don't enjoy the sound of Mrs. Davrath's voice (to me, it often sounds thin and shrill) or the sound of the orchestra, and some of the woodwinds sound outright amateurish (nothing wrong with that at all, but frustrating on a supposedly professional recording).For anybody who wants to get to know these songs, which are among the most beautiful pieces of music I know, I would urge considering the unbelievably wonderful recording with Frederica von Stade, or at least the very professional and popular recording with Kiri Te Kanawa.
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