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Review title: Vile...
Product review: ...truly vile.I've had this set for over five years. Sometimes I return to it, thinking it can't possibly be as bad as I remembered. I usually find it's worse. It's boring, unemotional, empty, pedestrian rubbish. Having forked out for it, after reading some 'reviews' (ha ha) from supposedly authoratative sources, I tried so hard to like it...but I just can't. There's just nothing here except the notes. The recorded sound is suffocatingly close, the piano tones hard and ungiving. Was the set recorded in a telephone booth by any chance?I guess the best performances are the ones of the late sonatas. The wonderful op.90 sonata in E minor is ok as is the tremendous 'Hammerklavier', op.106, even if the opening movement is under-powered. The fugue is a wild ride but compared with Gilels for example, there's no intricacy here. No thought.Oh well. Buy it at your peril. I've got a set for sale...
