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Review title: In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Product review: Only I am not sure that Christian Thielemann has even one eye. This painfully dull performance of the "Faust" Symphony, with slack climaxes and sluggish tempi, receives two stars only because video recordings of Liszt's orchestral masterpiece (NOT "the" masterpiece; it's one among many) are such a rarity, because the quality of the sound and the picture is tolerably high, because Thielemann's moronic physiognomy is rather amusing, and because I am in a fairly good mood. But the truth is that I have tried to watch it three times - and I have seen all of it but once. Visually it's a great improvement overDG's hilariously ugly DVDof Bernstein with the BSO from 1976. Musically Thielemann's sedated "interpretation" is light years behind Bernstein's rendition (which is no great shakes in the first place). Small wonder that Liszt's orchestral music is still grossly underappreciated. It will remain so until it is so hideously performed.
