| Review by nabokov June 27, 2003 (2 of 2 found this review helpful)
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| This is all you could hope for in Tchaikovsky – a passionate, gripping performance from start to finish, caught in exemplary sound. Ashkenazy’s pacing is exactly right – always supporting the melodic line and his ritenutos are affectionate, but never affected. He has a very definite idea of where the music should go and brings many revelations to the score. The entranced Philharmonia is with him all the way, even though a few minor flaws have not been edited out - perhaps a motivated decision on Tomoyoshi Ezaki's part, because this is not the first Exton recording on which you can hear such unedited flaws? Anyhow, the momentum was not spoiled - this is certainly one of the best SACD’s to date – a legendary performance caught on the wing.
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