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In Reply to: RE: Some Beethoven Fifth Last Movements posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 03, 2016 at 14:06:55
Although I like the Karajan recording you included here, there are soooo many recordings. And personally, I like the variety available to me. Since I am happy to accept the notion that there is no one best interpretation of any great music, I can enjoy the recordings by a diversity of conductors/orchestras -- from Bruno Walter to Zinman, Maazel's under the radar live performance with the VPO on tour in Japan to Mravinsky with the Leningrad forces, and others.
BTW, I don't experience the same difficulties you do with the Dorati, because I play the original LP cut from the 35MM tape, which sounds pretty darned good to my ears.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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I am certainly open to a variety of approaches for most works - it's one of the means by which one can learn more about the music (i.e., by hearing it performed in different ways). I know there are other listeners though who feel that, at least for them, there's the one "definitive" (I hate that word!) recording above all others. ;-)
Regarding the Dorati/LSO Beethoven Fifth, that might indeed be a case where I would have to concede that the LP incarnation would be superior to the digital one - for exactly the reason stated (i.e., that the original 35mm master was too far gone/deteriorated to use as the basis for the CD). OTOH, my distant memory of the Dorati LP was that, although it was superb in so many areas, including the depth and "airiness", I thought that there were louder places that sounded over-modulated on the actual groove cut. Maybe it was just the inability of my cartidge at the time (late 60's) to cope.
A "definitive" recording is one which the composer has either conducted or approved of another conductor's work. The guy/gal that wrote the music should have the final say on what is "definitive". That means that there are no definitive recordings of anything from the classical and romantic periods because all of those composers were long gone before recordings were a reality. This is not the case for 20th century composers. For example, Stravinsky regarded many of Robert Craft's recordings of his music as "definitive". If Igor said so then it is so. But, the question remains, are they the "best" recordings. Of course that is a whole 'nother kettle of fish because "best" is thoroughly subjective.
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