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Review title: Soggy
Product review: Beautiful playing, gorgeous sound. That will only take us so far. Abbado's rhythms have no spring to them, the orchestral colors are homoganized, the whole thing sounds slack. This isn't just a matter of tempi, although Abbado's are on the slow side. It's a matter of vision. Abbado here gives us an overly-romatic, non-ideomatic interpretation. There's little here of the Brahms who took long walks, smoked cigars and had to make his own coffee because no-one else made it strong enough for him. There's even less of the Brahms who sought the fusion of romantic sentiment into classical form. I've played this symphony and listened to many interpretations, and this is one doesn't suit my taste or what I read in the notes I played. For a bracing alternative, check out Klemperer's account on EMI, or Walter's, or Horenstein's. Even Bernstein gives us more authentic Brahms than this. Two stars for the orchestra and engineers.
