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Title: Wonderful Tone, better than more recent interpretations.
Review: Mr. Ma opened the 2007 Season of the New York Philharmonic with his signature Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor. This earlier recording with the same orchestra is stronger to my mind then his most recent performance in which the maestro relied on the tone and quality of the Davidov Stradivarius he plays and slacks off a good deal of his musicianship onto that happy circumstance.This addendum to the largely unavailable primary recording gives good bones to the music with conductor Kurt Masur at the podium.
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