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Review title: Not for everyone, but the one I play most often
Product review: I'd guess that this must be the slowest recording of the Sibelius #2 there is. I think that the historic Kajanus recording would finish before Bernstein gets through the first movement. No arguing that this is eccentric and probably grates on some listeners, but then, I can't stand Gould crooning through Bach while twiddling a piano. But if you get the chance, at least listen to the opening of the second movement. I swear, I never heard the drum roll and low pizzicato actually MEAN something here before. This isn't a race through the woods - this is damned serious. In the third movement, you can actually hear the oboe play the same note nine times; most performance blur this.There are plenty of great recordings of this work (Szell, Kajanus, and Kamu, for me), but this is the one I keep coming back to.
