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Title: The Original Chopin by Angela Lear
Review: Angela Lear is a British musicologist in addition to a performing artist. Her love is the study of Chopin's piano music, and she has found many discrepancies between current performing practice of Chopin's music and the autograph scores and other original documents.Unfortunately, her performances do not stand up to most of the competition. She is quite slow and even sounds inert at times. The tension, so important in Chopin's music, gets short shrift from Lear as she plays the works in much too relaxed a manner.Further, the soundstage is not up to snuff; the acoustic has a swimming quality and the bass response is too loud and indistinct.
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