One might have wished that DG had left off the Triple Concerto with Mutter, Ma, Zeltser, and Karajan: a soggy, soupy performance that does neither the work nor the artists' reputations any good. Anyone particularly hard-hearted might have wished that DG had used a different recording of the violin concerto than Mutter and Karajan's; as beautiful as it is -- and it is very, very beautiful -- it is still the work of a young violinist who may have been a bit too much under the spell of the older conductor. And while one might ...
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One might have wished that DG had left off the Triple Concerto with Mutter, Ma, Zeltser, and Karajan: a soggy, soupy performance that does neither the work nor the artists' reputations any good. Anyone particularly hard-hearted might have wished that DG had used a different recording of the violin concerto than Mutter and Karajan's; as beautiful as it is -- and it is very, very beautiful -- it is still the work of a young violinist who may have been a bit too much under the spell of the older conductor. And while one might wish that DG had used a different recording of the violin concerto arranged by Beethoven as a piano concerto -- Barenboim's performance is too coy and too cute to be believed -- there really aren't any better recordings. But no one could wish for a better modern recording of the piano concertos than this one by Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Abbado, and the Vienna Philharmonic. Pollini is arguably the greatest living Beethoven pianist: the most virtuosic, the most intellectual, the most...
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