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Title: A Voice Wasted
Review: I give this recording two stars because Kiri Te Kanawa's voice is truly beautiful but the arrangements of these "traditional" tunes is so insipid the singer's genius is wasted. Folk music is best when performed by folk, the way it was supposed to be, not "arranged" for a philharmonic orchestra with all its flouncy frills, so the singer's natural voice comes through expressing purely the emotion that makes this kind of music so beloved.
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