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Title: BEWARE!
Review: I purchased this Oratorio after hearing a violin solo from it, and was expecting something similar of the rest. I was sorely disappointed. Unfortunately, I got this item somewhere else, to my Eternal grief (at least on AMAZON, I would have saved $25.00). All the soloists do as best they can with the material given (especially the violin solo in Movement VI), but the lyrics could have been written by a fifth-grader with a Rhyming Dictionary. Here is an example of great talent gone to waste. BE FOREWARNED: just because Paul McCartney's name is attached to this vanity work of supposedly "serious" music, does NOT make this a good piece of music. Carl Davis has written many wonderful scores for movies, and Paul McCartney can stand on his own past record of good works, but this is so trite, silly, and appallingly bad that I wish I was able to give it minus five stars. Beware!
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