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Title: The risks of a live recording
Review: Live performances always preserve the emotion, the excitement and the risks of a challenge; in this case, the risks are huge; four sonatas per night is a Herculean task and, before a sonata cycle like this one, it's hard to keep the balance and the tempo. Sometimes, Tatiana is too intense and the pedaling excess is disturbing; as far as ornaments are concerned, it seems she can't play them "a tempo" and rubato turns to be a way to solve the technical limitations; as the listening goes on, you'll find too many wrong notes, wrong passages and wrong chords; this may explain the almost cold reaction from the audience. Here and there you'll hear someone's caughing or sneezing, a very low frequency noise and some differences in the piano sound. I think Nikolayeva could have left a better legacy recording this cycle in the studio and should have kept these live tapes in the cans.
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