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Title: So Sad This is Out of Print
Review: This is a overlooked recording of one of the best soloists in the past 30 years. Mr Zimmermann is an incredibly intelligent musician with beautiful tone and phrasing. He was so unfortunate to do this recording for EMI during the same decade Perlman did his with Giulini for the same lable. I would not say Zimmermann's playing is any less good than Perlman's. Zimmermann tone is as sweet, but the direction of his phrases is even clearer than Perlman's. The English Chamber Orchestra under Mr Tate sounds extremely inspired and delivers very vivid and chamber music like accompaniment. There are a few trully great recordings of this concerto. To me this one is certainly one of them.
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