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Title: poorly peformed
Review: The Variaciones Concertante is an amazing piece where each variation shows off a different instrument or section. It is a piece for virtuoso orchestra, and this orchestra isn't even close.The clarinet varaition is well known for it's difficulty, and the piece shouldn't be performed (or recorded) without an amazing player. This recording tries to get around this by performing that variation at a tempo that is way too slow (and not what the composer intended). It is a disgrace, taking all the life out of the music. Also, the high passage is taken down an octave. Why would anyone think that is acceptable?There are obvious French Horn clams, and while other variations have all the right notes, the players play timidly in order to get the notes, but without any musicality.Run away from this recording. Not even worth it at a budget price.
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