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Das Lied Von Der Erde (The Song of the Earth) - Mahler

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This Recording Should Be Pulled From Amazon
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The famous and wonderful performance of Das
Lied von der Erde by Mahler, as sung by the
famous and tragic Kathleen Ferrier and
conducted by Mahler protégé Bruno Walter,
is wasted in this un-listen-able butchering
of the original recording. First, it was
digitized from LP, and second, the pops
were poorly removed, not by hand, but by
algorithm. That would be barely tolerable.
But in addition there are skips, so that
whole parts of the performance are missing,
right from the middle, as the needle skipped
forward over circlets of analog groove.
Somebody needs to make an MP3 from the master
tapes and not try to palm off this amateur
job as professional. It is not worth $5, not
worth 5 cents. Anyone who had heard, who
knew the music to Das Lied, can hear that
little pieces thruout are missing. The
anti-pop software took out the loud sound
but clearly no one listened to the final
product, because it just isn't the music
that Mahler wrote, or that Kathleen sang.

Pah.

I give it three onions for being *almost*
brilliant and amazing, but in fact being
an LP I would throw out as being too damaged
to enjoy a listen. Instead I wince.

--Maxx Cassidy (Nerodog).