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Title: Superb Schubert from Haitink at his peak
Review: To my knowledge, Haitink's only Schubert recordings to date have been the symphonies #s 5,8, 9 and this complete Rosamunde (not the excerpted version of this Rosamunde contained on another cd-also w/ the Unfinished. Two of these performaces find Haitink at his (and anyone else's I believe) very best: his #9 and this Rosamunde, bur the ninth is still not on cd alas-perhaps Australian Eloquence could release a 5 and 9 jointly. The $5 is excellent, though I would like the first movement ca 30 seconds slower.This Rooamunde is totally superb- great choral work and a great soloist, Aafje Heynis, and wonderfully paced orchestral work-winds especially. The more often recorded suite of this work fails to do it justice- the entire work is much greater. This joins another Haitink Special, Mendelssohn'sMN Dream incidental music. I find both peerless. Closest in the Schubert are Fritz Lehmann/BPO, and in the Mendelssohn : Peter Maag/LSO
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