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Title: Poor selection of highlights
Review: Surely, if one is making a selection of highlights from Macbeth, especially if the recording includes the controversial Sylvia Sass, it goes without saying that the sleepwalking scene should be included. Yet this recording omits it! Instead one in treated to nearly half an hour of purely orchestral music (overture, the dance of the witches, etc etc), with minimal exposure to Sass, Cappuccilli and Christoff. The bits that are there, are good, but the interminable filling-in music makes this a very disappointing CD.The other recording of highlights where Sass also sings the part of Lady Macbeth, conducted by Previtali, is a far better buy.
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