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1.0 out of 5 stars
You cannot buy this album cheap enough to bother with it, December 27, 2005
This review is from: Léo Delibes: Lakmé (Audio CD)
This is easily the worst recording I have ever attempted to listen to. The performers are fine. The orchestra is only passible. The technical recording itself is atrocious! The microphones must have been placed over the front rows of the audience who were asthmatic or recovering from bronchitis. If you dare to listen to this wreck of a recording you will hear more hacking, coughing, nose blowing and sneezing than you should have heard in your life time. On top of that, the first rows must have been peopled by those who are enchanted by their own voices. I couldn't believe that an audience could be so crude.
DO NOT waste your money on this recording. It is so bad I haven't been able to tolerate it long enough to put the second disc in the player--even though I'm a huge Sutherland fan. If I ever thoroughly hate somebody, I'll give them this recording for a gift.
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