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Title: What legacy?
Review: I found Klemperer's conducting on this CD to be grossly exaggerated, sloppy, and utterly lacking in subtlety. It is as if Klemperer bought into the propaganda that Wagner's music is inherently blustering and unbalanced (which is what I was taught in college). Reading a Wagner score should disabuse any good musician of that errant notion. Even the Rienzi Overture. Here, Klemperer hacks through it while his brass players struggle to keep up. George Szell, on the other hand, is able to find tremendous grace (in the main theme especially) with his Cleveland Orchestra recording on the Sony Classical Wagner Overtures CD.
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