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Title: Wonderful second try
Review: Beautiful, creative, and well put-together. Lara St. John is daring enough to take a piece and make it sound like an improvisation. Her expression is right on, not holding anything back. The Carman fantasy is a bit overdone, but forgivably. Once you're past that, things are very fine. The Czardas Caprice is especially great. Unfortunately, she couldn't have made a bigger fool of herself on the cover if she had dressed like Yenta the matchmaker. Would have done much better to use one of the inside pictures on the front. Too bad Ilan Rechtman can't play quite up to her speed. But throw out the jacket and you've got a great gypsy/slavic album.
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