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Review title: Bringing it down a notch
Product review: Dr. Nygren is right to praise Celibidache for his excellent insight into this work, but good as it is, I have to quibble a little bit.As was so often the case, Celibidache here puts up with an orchestra that is not up to standard, though I surmise it plays over its usual capabilities due to inspiration from the maestro. Winds in particular are snaggly, the percussion sometimes inaccurate...the same problems Knappertsbusch had to deal with years earlier in recording Bruckner with the MPO.We can be glad though that Celibidache at least got this orchestra--if he'd have had to do this in Italy with one of the atrociously overworked RAI orchestras, which are contemporary music specialists to boot, the results would probably have been more uneven.All told, though, this is a worthwhile release, highly enjoyable, and a dynamic testament for the interpretative insight of a wonderful conductor.
