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This is an okay album (I was more disappointed by their take on EL CID), but the tempi are on the slow side, and the sound is a bit mushy.
The RPO recorded the suite from THE LOST WEEKEND in 2013 on one of their GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD albums, and while it's also a bit slow, everything else (dynamics, attack, sound) is better:
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Details.aspx?CatalogueNumber=RP%200024
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I like the Sedares version, but I am not particularly familiar with the original tracks for Double Indemnity. It's been ages since I've seen the movie.
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I like the CD.
If you really want more hi-end, then push up yer equalizers. Hell, you can even use a pitch-retaining acceleration to speed it a little. I always thought that sacrilege until I realised how often it's done in recordings ...
The main title from DI is a slow march of fate for the line of tragedy. I think that sounds better conceptually as a slow march, as Koch have done it, than as the rather rushed affair in the OST. All the subsequent recordings take it a bit slower than the OST, and they're right to do so. It's a case where the OST isn't the 'definer', though the OST performance is great.
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