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Title: Call the paramedics.
Review: Is it possible that anyone could present this work as more lifeless than did Norrington and the London Classical Players? I sincerely doubt it. The key, I think, to this disaster can be found in Norrington's notes: "We try to play the SCORE [italicized in the original]...". They're so busy trying to be reproducers of marks on paper, and concentrating on keeping in time with the metronome, that they forgot to make MUSIC. The only reason I don't give this 1 star is that some of the sonorities produced by the instruments they use are interesting... IF you can stay awake long enough to hear them.
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