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Review title: The Emperor has no clothes
Product review: Admittedly, this set is beautifully played, and the digital remastering has mitigated the shrillness of the recorded sound DGG usually gave Karajan during this period. That said, the electricity in these performances goes on and off. The performances are cosmetically beautiful, but the passion is there only intermittently--neatness counts, but it is not enough in itself--at least, not in Tchaikovsky. Also, I miss the sort of impetus-giving rubato and the illusion of hysteria just barely under control so wonderfully supplied by Pierre Monteux who understood that "the letter kills, while the spirit giveth life."
