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Title: Modern reading
Review: The setting is perfect: Sankt Florian provides the spaciousness that is needed in order to fill with armonics and reverberations the long pauses of the score.Welser Moest does not have the sense of climaxes typical of Jochum and Von Karajan or even Baremboim, but his reading is deeply moving in its fresh and transparent lyricism. Furthermore his control on the orchestra is never in doubt.Cleveland plays beautifully: the string session provides audible warmth and depth even in the most powerful tutti.the famous coda of the 4th movement does have that sense of redemption we would expect after the dramatic tension created by the gigantic fugue.A great performance. The best among the young conductors of our age.
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