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Title: Alfred's groaning is very disappointing
Review: No complaints about the performance and recording quality itself (see fullsome praise in all other reviews at time of writing).But no-one mentions how Alfred moans and groans and hums all the time and this is REALLY annoying in the quieter passages (take for example the opening Adagio of the Op5 No.2 on CD1:1).Also, why does the order of the works on the CDs have to be virtually random? I.e., CD 1 has Sons 2, then 4, then 3, then variations; CD 2 has variations, then 5, then 1, then more variations. Bizzare... Perhaps it was to fit it on 2 CDs, but even then the order within the CDs could have been better.Anyway, if you want a Glenn-Gould-like background from Alfred, then you will like this; otherwise, avoid...
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