Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Dull performance of fantastic music

Few of Tchaikovsky's works are as passionate as his two tone poems on love, "Romeo and Juliet" and "Francesca da Rimini." When well performed, they will sweep you up and carry you away into ecstasy, just as the winds carried Francesca in Dante's Inferno.Unfortunately, Kurt Masur gives these works the most plodding performance imaginable. From the first measure he plays the notes, and nothing more. While listening to "Francesca" I found myself repeatedly turning up the volume in the forlorn hope of somehow getting the passion from sheer decibels, but to no avail. The rhythms are stolid, the dynamics uninspired, the insight nonexistent.If you are a Tchaikovsky lover and you don't already own copies of "Romeo" and "Francesca", you should definitely buy a recording ASAP--just not this one.