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Review title: Unnecessarily quite frustrating
Product review: Yes, the orchestral playing is quite impressive. Yes, Bernstein truly demonstrates his love for this music through this performance. Yes, but...After listening to both works, it was like walking onto a train at rush hour expecting the express train yet finding out later to my dismay that it is really a local train.This is Mozart. You need more thrust, or spontaneity, or whatever you want to call it. Berntein`s tempi are too stilted for me, especially the beginning of No. 40. Although he went a little overboard in his diatribe, I believe ELN was correct in explaining the complete disappearance of emotion and urgency from the first movement of No.40 because of its slow pace (8 3/4 minutes).Sorry. All the plusses I mentioned above just pale compared to the unnecessary plodding of some of this CD`s movements.This CD just doesn`t cut it. Especially with the huge competition out there re: these two symphonies.
