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Review title: Dreadful!
Product review: I cannot hear what others seem to in these badly recorded (seems that the performances were from 1974, with one in 1967, according to the box, and some of what I so dislike may be due to bad engineering and microphone placement -- but that's hard to credit for everything that's wrong here), listlessly mis-performed, flat out bad intepretations of the string quintets. One would think that these works were meant primarily for solo violin with "back-up." Nonsense! Penguin Guide complimented these players' performances as "admirably conceived." I have no idea what that means. Played this way these wonderful works would rapidly find their way to the trash heap (as my set of these performances will today). How can the simply overwhelming G-Minor be played so badly? I grew up on versions from the Julliard Sting Quartet (with a fifth -- Trampler, I think) on LP and went to this set hoping for better. I will continue my search.
