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Jesus Christ. What an ass and what a daft "review".
This guy might know his stuff but is this seriously a review or just a guy reading track names on albums that clearly he hasn't listened to? I mean, all he is doing is criticizing the timings of pieces and has no additional arguments based on listening to support his claim that Williams isn't a charismatic conductor. BTW, picking on The Planets alone doesn't support the argument. Every conductor has their off days... every single one! And then after each album, he has to either undermine pops recordings or film music as a whole. Oh, and don't you just love it when he thinks he's singing "The Mission Theme" but sings "Meet The Press" instead? This clown hasn't listened to any of these recordings. How can you review a set and criticize a conductor WITHOUT listening? Yes, what an ass!
-Erik-
He is nuts but, to be fair to him, while the box set is new the recordings within it have been around for YEARS and it's perfectly feasible that he's very familiar with some/much of it. He's certainly speaking like he has heard a lot of these tracks - so he may have done. But definitely, definitely nuts!
I find it unpleasant how someone is getting insulted here just because he expresses his personal opinion on something! i'm a musicologist and i absolutely share his opinion, john williams is a great composer but a rather mediocre/bad conductor and interpreter of other peoples music!
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Jan 27, 2022 - 5:54 AM
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JohnnyG
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Jesus Christ. What an ass and what a daft "review".
This guy might know his stuff but is this seriously a review or just a guy reading track names on albums that clearly he hasn't listened to? I mean, all he is doing is criticizing the timings of pieces and has no additional arguments based on listening to support his claim that Williams isn't a charismatic conductor. BTW, picking on The Planets alone doesn't support the argument. Every conductor has their off days... every single one! And then after each album, he has to either undermine pops recordings or film music as a whole. Oh, and don't you just love it when he thinks he's singing "The Mission Theme" but sings "Meet The Press" instead? This clown hasn't listened to any of these recordings. How can you review a set and criticize a conductor WITHOUT listening? Yes, what an ass!
-Erik-
He is nuts but, to be fair to him, while the box set is new the recordings within it have been around for YEARS and it's perfectly feasible that he's very familiar with some/much of it. He's certainly speaking like he has heard a lot of these tracks - so he may have done. But definitely, definitely nuts!
I find it unpleasant how someone is getting insulted here just because he expresses his personal opinion on something! i'm a musicologist and i absolutely share his opinion, john williams is a great composer but a rather mediocre/bad conductor and interpreter of other peoples music!
Some of you are trying hard to make me regret the decision to acquire this set, but no, I WILL NOT regret it! 
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So, what exactly are you saying, Amer?
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Finishing listening to the Holst "Planets" disc and I'm not sure what the complaints about the conducting are. Williams generally conducts each piece a little bit faster than some other recordings, most notably with "Mars", but I actually found this quite refreshing as I think it tends to gets played over-dramatically and over-preciously by being too slow and plodding. Here it moves at a fast clip.
There are a few performance issues here and there from the BPO and "Neptune" seems to be missing some of its lower strings and percussion at parts, but overall nothing that I see reflects poorly on Williams.
Really enjoying this set, now along with John Williams Conductor for the complete BPO/Williams experience!
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