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Gustavo dudamel childrenCD Review
Perhaps we should cut the guy some slack? To be hyped as "the most exciting and gifted young conductor of our times" when you are facing your first recording with the "legendary Berlin Philharmonic", is anything but helpful.
Surely, everybody is expecting you to move the earth. But even so, with everything reset to human proportions, it's still a fact that Gustavo Dudamel's debut disc with the Berlin Philharmonic in a well-tried Richard Strauss triple bill isn't bound to move much.
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As soon Also Sprach Zarathustra gets under way, it becomes clear that the Venezuelan conductor has little or no affinity with this music. His reading is fragmented and lacks all sense of evocation, let alone mystery or expectation (just try the Song of the Grave).
Dudamel has a superlative Berlin Philharmonic at his disposal, moreover recorded quite spectacularly and with plenty of detail during concerts at the Philharmonie, yet Strauss' brilliant orchestration remains mer