After reading these reviews, I really, really wanted to like this recording...but I don't.
I have listened to it over and over hoping that over time it would grow on me. It has not.
This performance sounds "malnourished." It's a skeletal rather than a fleshed- out reading...the inevitable consequence of the small forces employed (a chamber orchestra).
I found myself often straining with this recording...straining to hear familiar detail in the score...straining to enjoy this interpretation. I am not sure what all the fuss is about.
I greatly prefer the two SACD recordings of Colin Davis (out on Pentatone and Universal-Japan SHM) as well the redbook recordings of Myun Wun Chung, Leonard Bernstein (with the Paris Orchestra) and Roger Norrington (1st recording on period instruments with the London Classical Players).
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