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Though not as oppressively lumbering a conception as his 1980 Israel P0 account (CBS, 12180n1a), Bernstein's NYPO Prokofiev Fifth remains a problem child. Quite apart from some dubiously extreme tempos and the occasional irksome, overexpressive Lunge, it's a performance too seriously compromised...

Ripe tone is obviously wanting in, say, the great waves that progress through the balcony and parting scenes; and the acoustics of Victoria Hall, Geneva, don't give the engineers much opportunity to stimulate it, should they have wanted to. What we have here is a Suisse Romande tradition largely...

Those who favour a calorie-controlled musical diet, and who normally shy away fromJln de siècle excess, may well find this slimline production refreshing. The fact is that Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic breath clean air into scores that, given more obviously indulgent advocacy, can weigh...

RAVEL. Daphnis et Chloé_balleta. Valses nobles et sentimentales. aTanglewood Festival Chorus; Boston Symphony Orchestral Seiji Ozawa. DG Galleria c (D 437 648-2GGA (68 minutes: ADD). From 2740 120(11/75).