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Title: Overrated, Overblown, Overdone
Review: The cast is generally good, but this often-praised recording has some poorly-judged, overemphatic conducting from Rattle, including a truly ludicrous "What You Want Wid Bess?" And the sound is all wrong for this piece; it's balanced in such a way that the words are often muffled or even inaudible. So this simply doesn't do justice to Gershwin's unique masterpiece. Get the RCA recording (conducted by John DeMain, with Donnie Ray Albert and Clamma Dale), which is equally well sung but better conducted and recorded.
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