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From: Roland van Gaalen <vangaalenusenet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.recordings
Subject: The problem with Haitink (?)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:57:01 +0200
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Beethoven 4, recorded 1987
in Philips box 442 073-2
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor: Bernard Haitink

Verdict: very good but no cigar

+ great orchestral playing
+ fine interpretation
+ lively, expressive, exciting; definitely not boring
+ excellent sound
+ all in all very good

And yet
- the exuberance, while not suppresssed, is slightly restrained, safely 
within the limits of good taste, as it were, where I think the music 
should sound as if almost going out of control
--
Roland van Gaalen
The Netherlands