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Title: Disappointing
Review: If you are interested in Scott Joplin's piano music, best to avoid this set.Without even hearing it, had I known it was recorded in 1960, I would not have bought it. This was a time before Dolby processing and the tape hiss is audible. This is SACD, so if you have equipment to take advantage of that technology, it's probably even more annoying.Professor Parker is an accomplished pianist, however what he's playing here is not what Scott Joplin wrote. Parker adds his own trills, flourishes and arpeggios; very obvious upon first hearing if you know the music. He also skips all of the repeats that Joplin wrote, not only missing a number of pleasant bars, but shortening each composition by nearly half.I was looking for a CD replacement for the decades-old Joshua Rifkin set I have on LP. This isn't it.
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