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| Andersen's Fairy Tales 2CD |
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| Manufacturer: Naxos Audiobooks |
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| List Price: $17.98 |
| Sale Price: $14.02 |
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Product Description |
| This recording of Andersen's fairy tales features "The Ugly Duckling", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Match Girl" and many more. |
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 Great stories, nicely read, but volume way too low |
| Review Date: November 27, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Gadgester, Mother Earth |
This 2CD set contains some of Andersen's best fairy tales, from Emperor's Clothes (how did the guy come up with such a fabulous satire?) to the sad Little Match Girl (it always drives me to tears). It's well read by an English voice actress. The longer stories are broken into separate tracks -- this is just very thoughtful and useful, unlike some fairy CDs that put all the stories on one single track. The producers should be lauded for this nice, common-sense feature.
Two issues: (1) Minor: the accent is British English which I love but which may annoy some American parents; (2) Major: the mastering volume was set to way too low. I turned the volume on my Cambridge Soundworks hi-fi to 85% or more and it barely sounds okay. I'm a classical music aficionado and usually I set the volume at about 40-45% even for the quietest piano or oboe solo works, so the fact I had to crank up the volume all the way to max speaks volumes about the poor mastering of the CD.
But at such a low price, this CD set is a bargain and I really love the stories. I guess I'll get a nice amplifier in the future anyway. |
Bad Recording
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| Review Date: April 5, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Lee Carzo, CA, USA |
| The original stories are beautiful. But the performer tried to abridge them and the recording is terrible. |
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