Don't know about well-turned phrases, but surely the most over-the-top
claim by any CD reviewer was about a version of Haydn's 'Creation' that
went something like this: "A splendid performance every bit as wonderful
as the event it was intended to depict."
In another vein, on eBay recently I ran into this adjectivally extravagant
and mentally logjamming CD description:
The Vogler Quartett perform their historic readings of
BEETHOVEN's Quartet Op. 59 No. 1 "Rasumovsky" (39:32) and
BARTOK's Quartet No. 2 Op. 17 (27:25) on this very very rare
& long out-of-print, hard-to-find & absolutely extinct,
unsealed but unplayed & 100% brand new original *vintage*
1992 [DDD] BMG~RCA VICTOR Red Seal CD 09026-61185-2 printed
& made in the U.S.A.!
Whew!
Bert Bailey