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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Beethoven: 9 Symphonies Best Box Set posted by PhillyB on April 7, 2007 at 11:13:00:
... is: Get the Szell, which is as close as anyone has ever come to doing a terrific job on each symphony. Also, if it's your first cycle, it's maybe best to get a fairly "standard" interpretation, and Szell is that--though there's nothing dull or routine about his conducting or Cleveland's playing. Sonics are a bit dated, but perfectly listenable. I probably own two dozen LvB cycles, and Szell is perhaps the one I have returned to most often.The longer answer would include Harnoncourt, Zinman, Wand, 60's Karajan, mono Walter, Kleiber, Jochum, Toscanini and Furtwangler, Klemperer, Gardiner, and probably several others I'm not remembering at the moment. But get the Szell. (Available on inexpensive 'Essential Classics" issues, if you don't want to get the overpriced box set. Also vinyl is easy to find.)
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- The short answer... - M. Lucky 21:18:25 04/07/07 (1)
- agree on Szell (nt) - Paul_A 03:53:24 04/08/07 (0)
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