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In Reply to: RE: finished listening to Klemperer's Beethoven set posted by TGR on January 29, 2017 at 15:14:10
The third synphony has an inevitability about it that can be overwhelming. I'm also a fan of Szell's set, so I'm curious, what did Paul Henry Lang have to say about Toscanini's Beethoven?
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It was lengthy (btw, you can find used copies of "The Recordings of Beethoven, as viewed by the critics from High Fidelity), on Amazon. I had an original for years, then discarded it when it fell apart. Bought a hardback a couple of years ago - very nostalgic for me.
Anyway, he says things like Toscanini misjudges the climax of the 6th - I agree - that some of the tempos in the 9th are too fast - I also agree, that the performance of the 5th is terrific but with very poor sound - right again to my ears. Given what I have read recently about the restoration of the 30s cycles on Immortal Performances, and then my own experience with his NYPO 7th (my very favorite recording of the 7th) - I don't think we hear Toscanini's best work in the late in life RCA set.
When I first heard Toscanini, (a long time ago), I thought that the different sections of the orchestra were pitted against eachother and by doing this, were getting the music wrong. I was using Szell as a standard of comparison, and in his recording, I heard the different sections blended together to form musical phrases where their individual identities were lost in the overall sound. Klemperer seems to be doing the same thing.
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