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In Reply to: RE: I also like the Karajan '63 performance better than the Kleiber performance posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 03, 2016 at 16:36:55
You should be able to find this under the title - my sa-cd.net username was tream. At that time I did not own the LPs. Having said that, I have yet to listen to them - picked up a set cheap about a year ago.
This shows that memory is an unfaithful friend....apparently I liked the fast tempo in the first movement of Pastorale better than I recalled. But, I have never liked the "traditional" slow to a dirge in the trio of the 7ths Scherzo - and I found the 4th movement overdriven, and then there is the ponderous tempo of the 3rd movement of the 8th.
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Madeline commented on it too. The tempos you mentioned in the 6th and 7th didn't bother me - I felt Karajan pulled them off convincingly. For many years, I thought Karajan's Decca 7th with the VPO (from just a couple of years earlier than this DG set) was perhaps slightly fresher than this BPO one, but I need to hear them back to back.
I like your comment about Kmentt, the tenor in the 9th - he was really a "let the chips fall where they may" type of singer. ;-)
You can't judge the last movement of the Kleiber performance without listening to the whole symphony There is a forward momentum from the start culminating in the searing last movement. If you want a great performance with killer sound the new recording on Reference Recordings of Honeck and the Pittsburgh symphony is a great performance with reference quality sound
Alan
Edits: 08/03/16
And I never pretended to do so.
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