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Review title: YIKES!!!
Product review: I really wanted to just give this one-star, but what the heck, it's Christmas! I just finished listening (again) to Gieseking's magical early Beethoven sonatas (please see my review). This is the antithesis. The reason I'm going to cut Goode some slack (an apt term given his lackluster to the extreme playing) is that the recorded sound - maybe it's the piano itself - is so abysmal, and therefore the performance, maybe, isn't totally at fault. Who knows? Now to be fair, in this entire set there are some good renditions, and some excellent individual movements. But to get to them requires slogging through some of the most uninspired Beethoven playing ever set to vinyl-er metal. Run, don't walk---away!
