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Title: A Performance Lacking in Taste
Review: In these performances, Richard Stolzman offers us phrasing that is so overdone that it is offensive. While I do not favor the bloodlessly cautious interpretations that are to be found in several other recordings of these works, Stolzman goes tastelessly in the opposite direction.He has a pleasant tone and good intonation, but these are wasted on readings which do Brahms' music a disservice. Richard Goode's work is at a higher level. It is too bad he didn't collaborate with another clarinetist.
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