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Review title: Boulez Mahler: think of elephants ballet-dancing!
Product review: Actually the analogy in the title is not accurate. It is not that Boulez is heavy handed, but totally without feeling! It is nice to hear a recording which does not strive to put an idiosyncratic interpretation on the fifth, but Boulez almost perversely prevents himself from getting involved. This may be fine if you do not know the piece, but if you know it and love it as I do, then avoid it at all costs! The whole point, surely is to get Mahler's emotional tensions and aspirations across through the performance and somehow Boulez seems to filter them out altogether, leaving something which is only Mahler in its bare essence!
