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Title: Not nearly as good as the performance on "Live at the Royal Albert Hall"
Review: I suppose that if you are a committed collected of everything ELP, you might want to add this to your collection. But if you are just looking for a good live performance of "Pictures at an Exhibition", the performance on the "Live at the Royal Albert Hall" DVD is far more inspired and exciting. I am quite certain that ELP would tell you the same thing. The vintage performance just lacks maturity in musical performance, which the latter performance has in spades. And with the other DVD, you also get excellent live performances of a lot of other ELP stuff, including Tarkus, Knife Edge, Prokofiev, Pirates, and "Fanfare for a Common Man". The other DVD, of the performance at the Royal Albert Hall in the early nineties, is just infinitely superior in every way. But if you are a diehard collector of ELP stuff, you might still like this, but you'll also get some cheesy vintage '70s video effects.
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