Louis Andriessen: De Stijl & M Is for Man, Music, Mozart | Contemporary Classical Music CD | Perfect for Music Lovers & Collectors

I recently discovered that I own the only recording of Reich's Tehillim that allows the music to be as excellent as it actually is--namely the red one on the Cantaloupe label; the other two or three are so unfortunately recorded that, had I only heard them, I would have dismissed "The Desert Music" (presently my favorite recording in my collection) as a mediocre comoposition and been unable to recognize "Tehillim" itself as the work of genius it actually is.To the point, I suspect that this recording of De Stijl suffers from the same flaw. The choral component of the composition sounds muffled.Granted, Andriessen is a postmodernist and is full of awful ideas about what music should sound like, but the energy and clarity of the instrumental parts of "De Stijl" suggest to me that something has gone wrong in the process of performance and recording.Of course, I doubt we'll ever have a second recording."M is for Man" etc. on the other hand was excellent, though (to my reading) it carries some fairly ideologically toxic implications about the nature of man and his place in the world. I dislike the style of singing which Andriessen has written for--"Blend the boundaries of high and low culture" jazz-influenced nastiness--but that's the condition of music in our century, I suppose.