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Title: Unlistenable.
Review: Don't get me wrong, Fantasia is one of my favorite movies and Stokowski my favorite conductor--a true genius. The problem is that these CDs were "restored" ("destroyed" would be a better word) by someone who has no idea what music sounds like. In a desperate attempt to preserve our ears from any (gasp!) noise, a brutal gating filter was used to destroy any semblance of the sound of real instruments. And, since optical recording of the time had very poor treble response, what treble there is has been boosted mercilessly, resuting in shrill, screechy strings. I really cannot bear to listen to these CDs.I see that someone has muddied the waters by uploading pictures of the 1980s digital re-recording of the soundtrack (the CDs with the brown background). Blasphemous as it sounds, that may be the better way to hear this music, at least until the Disney company sees fit to allow a proper restoration of the original soundtrack to be done.
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