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Title: Really poor
Review: David Palmer did a lot of imaginative string and orchestral arrangements for Jethro Tull back in their early days; his work on the Tull standard "A Christmas Song" is a particular high point. But these "symphonic interpretations" of rock never really work and this album is no exception. The arrangements of Tull greats like "Locomotive Breath" and "Living In The Past" are leaden-footed and the LSO sounds like the Boston Pops on a particularly bad night. Palmer would be better served either conducting or writing some original works that don't stem from a rock background. When he tries to put a rock heart into a classical body, the result is DOA.
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