Title: Disappointment from Boulez
Product review: Boulez is supposedly a great composer/conductor. What does this mean? Does this mean he hits all the notes right? I happen to believe there is more to music than this, so his hyper-active, same-dynamic-level rendering of Bartok's Piano Concertos, particularly the famous *Second* was a great disappointment. There is little music here, despite the technical mastery. Passages that I remember gloriously from other recordings in the past sound as though they were recreated by a huge machine, and not even a MIDI computer, which now does a much better job. I don't like dissing composers and musicians, so I will stop here, but I went on and right away purchased Esa-Pekka Solonen's versions of the concertos (also available on Amazon). These performances were *so much* better. Joseph Pehrson
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