In Reply to: Why is older better? posted by Ozymandias on June 5, 2002 at 08:14:14:
i think one reason is that we establish a personal benchmark for many pieces and don't really keep an open mind to new performances (or older ones for that matter). i still love levine's mahler 7 over most others even though i know its faults. it was just my first 7th and it was love at first sight (i have about a dozen other performances).
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