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Title: Sheer excellence
Review: A few weeks ago, I heard a live performance of these two symphonies (the Berlin Symphoniker, under Harding's direction) in my town's theatre and I was so enthusiastic that I ordered them the following day. The orchestra is excellent, and Daniel Harding - who's now only 25 years old - promises to become one of the great conductors of symphonic music, if he keeps it up this way. The fact that this CD pre-dates, of course, that concert shows he has reached a great fusion with the Bremen Philarmoniker. Harding still shows an enthusiastic, youthful display of movements while he's directing, but - after all - so used to do Bernstein in his already mature years (I saw and heard him, directing the Israeli Symphony Orchestra from Tel Aviv, in the same theatre). This, however, cannot be perceived from recorded music. Just relax and enjoy it.
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