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Title: One of their best
Review: This was the first pair peformed by Larrocha and Davis and one of their three best pairs- the others were #s 20+ 25 (see my review) and 19+27. The least attractive were #s 22 +_26 ( cf her great #22 w/ Uri Segal), and (better but insufficiently) #s 23 and 24. #9 here contains a spirited and sparkling first movement and an appropriately tragic second movement and interpolated slower episode in the final movement. The rest of the third movement is very good but not as quick as I would prefer.#21 here is truly and entirely great. It possesses properly quick tempi in the outer movements and a hypnoticsecond movement. One hears a great collaboration // the Davis/ADL #s 20 and 25. I wish that they had recorded more Mozart, especially #s 15-18 which had already received nearly perfect performances from Peter Serkin.Peers- #9- Brendel/Marriner, Haebler/Rowicki, Goode/Orpheus#21- Vasary/Vasary, Annie Fischer/Lukacs, Serkin/Schneider, Monique Haas/Rosbaud, Curzon/Kubelik,Haebler/Rowicki
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