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Review title: 2.5 stars- Lenny drawing attention to himself
Product review: I can't believe that these other reviewers think that the last movement being played at about 18:00 is valid. To show complete despair, does it have to really be played at a crawling pace like that? Karajan's late 70's DG version is full of despair but is played at a fairly quick 9:50. Bernstein, especially in his last years, was very self-indulgent, and it really shows in this reading. Lenny isn't serving Tchaikovsky but himself. Tchaikovsky, I'm sure, would hate this beautiful symphony given this kind of treatment. The longest last movement that I've ever seen before this clocked in at about 11:30, so he's about 6:30 past that, which is totally freaking crazy!!! This is interesting to hear maybe once just to hear how bad this freakish intrepretation is, but most people wouldn't be satisfied with this kind of stuff. Buy the Karajan DG version from the late 70's and just forget about this self-indulgent reading.
