Title: Dancing delights with a caveat
Product review: These three Suites are light and quick in the quicker movements with superb playing from the ECO. Nothing drags-a major asset and not as pro forma as one might expect. The ECO is excellent throughout. For example, the third movement winds ripieno in #1 and the trumpet led second and fifth movements of #4 are ideal. Soloists are distinguished. Tempi are also appropriately lively throughout #3, in which some conductors are too leaden. My lone caveat concerns fairlyintrusive ornamentation in the Air. Leppard employs little of it elsewhere in this program, but this is a forwarning in case such practices are annoying. Since it is the only problematic movement in the three Suites, I think, the disc still deserves five stars.Peers: Van Beinum; Richter (especially #s 1 and 4); Marriner; Rilling; Szell (in #3)
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