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Title: Disappointing Orchestration & Vocal
Review: Economics no doubt dictated the size of the orchestra and thats too bad. As someone who grew up on the original recording with Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations, I am forever disappointed with the sound of the revivals.The orchestras sound thin and don't have any of the magic coloring of Tunick's genius. Although I love distillations of big works by ensemble orchestras, the sound of the revivals have no appeal to me. Too, its a tough thing to match the voices in the original production and maybe unfair to compare them. It just seems that everyting was just so right with the OBC. Newcomers to Company, however, will no doubt be enchanted by this CD as I was 37 years ago by the original which is so burned into me that I am incapable of enjoying the revivals.
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