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Title: Not so much
Review: As much as I love the New Year's concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic, I can summon little enthusiasm for this particular concert.The orchestra does everything Harnoncourt asks of it, and that's the problem. The result is Strauss et al in an interpretive strait jacket that didn't connect to me when watching the concert b'cast the day of and which seems even more misguided on further hearings.I say the above as one who enjoys Harnoncourt in other rep, like the Beethoven Symphonies, for example.Harnoncourt was the VPO's invited conductor again for the concert of 1/1/2003...and hasn't been back since.Perhaps that now-10-year hiatus tells us something about how the orchestra felt about his two appearances.
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