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Title: Not indestructible.
Review: I used to think Schubert's 9th was "indestructible" music, because I'd never heard a bad performance of it. Well, Yuasa has changed that. I love this symphony, but in Yuasa's hands it just plods along with no form or sense of purpose. There's no feeling that any moment is connected to any other moment. By the middle of the second movement I just didn't care anymore if I heard the rest of it. But I persevered, and found myself noticing how out of balance the various sections of the orchestra sounded. When the performance finished, I felt I had heard the notes, but I hadn't heard a _symphony_.The recorded sound is adequate; a bit distant and over-resonant.
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