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 | | But even these parts are played largely as though from the point of view of horrific external events, rather than of the individual experiencing them; and the real problem with the interpretation is that the outer movements are given a treacly-romantic, calculatedly over-dramatized treatment, which to my mind detracts from, even neutralizes, their emotional charge. |
 | | The Fitzwilliam Quartet are less completely authoritative and the late-seventies Decca recordings are rather nasal in quality, but their interpretation is in many ways more searching. |
 | | This is a recording which aspiring string quartets should hear, but whose authority in certain movements they would accept only at their peril. |
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