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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

Didn't mean to imply it was universal - Sorry!

BTW, re the OSR being a precursor to the HIP movement, weren't you the one who posted that the OSR in the Ansermet days was "as close to HIP as one could get back then"? Am I missing a distinction you wanted to make?

I don't remember the discussion about the bell in the Berlioz Sf (could that have been in Vinyl Asylum?), and I haven't heard the Ansermet recording. The best (i.e., most blood curdling) bell I've heard on recording is on the Karajan/BPO recording. But the discussion would be incomplete without also addressing why so many conductors ignore Berlioz' request to double the bell notes with piano bass notes - I believe on one occasion Berlioz even made the extravagant suggestion that he would like to have 10 pianos doubling the bell! (Of course, those would likely have been pre-iron-frame "fortepianos", so maybe that number really would have been necessary - LOL!) Of all the recordings I've heard of the Sf, only Mitropolous (a couple of others too perhaps - can't remember if one of them is Stokowski) uses piano doublings as requested by Berlioz, although not with the full complement of 10! ;-)


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