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Beethoven: Leonore Overture; Piano Concerto No. 4; Symphony No. 5; Piano Sonatas 17 & 21; String Quartet "Razumovsky." Carlos Kleiber, Claudio Abbado, Karl Bohm, Maurizio Pollini. DG Panorama 289 469 112-2.(Review)
Beethoven: Leonore Overture; Piano Concerto No. 4; Symphony No. 5; Piano Sonatas 17 & 21; String Quartet "Razumovsky." Carlos Kleiber, Claudio Abbado, Karl Bohm, Maurizio Pollini. DG Panorama 289 469 112-2.
This set begins DG's second series of"Panorama" double albums, featuring some of the company's best older recordings. Like many others in the series, these discs offer some magical and highly persuasive moments at a relatively low price.
The program begins with the Leonore Overture, performed by Claudio Abbado and the Vienna Philharmonic, recorded in 1991. It has commendable energy and drive, but it is flawed by mediocre, curiously lifeless sound. It is followed on disc one by the Fourth Piano Concerto with pianist Maurizio Pollini and conductor Karl Bohm with the Vienna Philharmonic. Pollini's playing appears a bit distant but as always his craftsmanship and precision are without peer. The recording, made in 1976, is more full, warm, and ambient than the later Abbado production and provides a more ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald September 27, 1999 700+ words
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