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Review title: Stuck in the mud!
Product review: This recording of the Rachmaninoff Third is strange indeed! There are arbitrary tempo choices and fluctuations that seem to make no musical sense, and give little respect to the score. The slow movement, and certain lyrical parts of the first movement are so heavy handed that the momentum simply gets "stuck in the mud!" It seems as though the musical ideas are intellectually conceived and not felt emotionally, as if to say, "let's play this passage really slow, because no one else has played it that way before." In my view, that's boring music making at its worse! No comment on the Bartok (which, contrary to layman's opinions that are based on a recent movie, is a far more difficult work technically), as it isn't strong enough to recommend buying the recording. However, it's a slightly stronger performance than the Rachmaninoff. My advice, bypass this one...
