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There are two kinds of collaboration possible between conductor and soloist. The first kind happens when both completely agree about the way the music ought to go because they share the same approach. The second type features two artists of very different temperament, and it's more dangerous but also potentially more exciting. The danger arises when the two performers fail to agree on anything, and each goes his own merry way. But when they really stimulate each other a new sort of musical fusion results, and then just listen to the sparks fly! That's exactly what happens here. Bernstein's passionate immediacy of response seems to feed onSerkin's disciplined severity, and the result is Beethoven for the record books. Let it rip!
--David Hurwitz
