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Review title: Boring...is this Beethoven's Ninth?
Product review: I LOVE Beethoven's Ninth and have heard many recordings of it. This recording is just plain boring to my ears, although it does have spiritual qualities rarely heard under the baton of other conductors. Yes, the soloists are wonderful(especially Domingo), but the dry choruses and the dreadfully SLOW tempo just ruin this performance. When the finale was over, I almost fell asleep and eventually sold this CD to a used CD store. You don't even want to hear my opinion about how disasterous the slow movement sounds. Bohm was a fine Mozart conductor, but he doesn't build momentum and energy when it comes to Beethoven. For the orchestral parts of this symphony, you will enjoy Karajan's sublime 1977 recording with the BPO, and for the finale, Solti's 1972 recording with Stuart Burrows sounds magnificent. Both of those recordings leave you with a sense of passion and fervor I don't feel with Bohm's recording.
