Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Mediocre version of an excellent score

The score for Hitchcock's Psycho is in my opinion on of the best ever written. Unfortunately, this performance is not at all close to the high standards of the original soundtrack recording of 1960 with Herrmann himself conducting. The conducting on this cd is insecure, and the sound is very muffled, though Mcneely picks tempi that correspond fairly well to the original ones. The original tracks aren't available commercially but I would also put Herrmann's own rerecording on the Unicorn label above this one. The Unicorn cd is slower throughout than both this cd and the OST, but the conducting is of much higher quality.