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Yeah - I have those Strauss (Elektra and Salome) recordings too

Posted by Chris from Lafayette on September 26, 2020 at 18:40:39:
Also Friedenstag and JosephsLegende. I was impressed by his very first DG recordings too, which included the Schumann Second Symphony, the Mendelssohn Italian Symphony and the Schubert Unfinished. Overall, I still find him a much more interesting conductor than (for instance) Abbado. His incomplete set of Bruckner Symphonies with the Sk Dresden is also great. (I have 3, 5, 7 and 8.) He recorded three Liszt albums with the Sk Dresden, which I think are all outstanding. (I have the Dante Symphony and the Faust Symphony, and I've heard the other Liszt album on Qobuz.) I also really liked his complete Schumann Symphonies with the Sk Dresden (even though his tempos on the Second Symphony had slowed down a bit compared to his Philharmonia recording). His Wagner album with the SkD (Parsifal, Tannhauser, etc.) was great too. I just like a lot of the stuff he did, especially with the SkD! (BTW, I still haven't been able to get Sinopoli's Elgar set, which includes the "In the South" Overture you mentioned - the couple of times I tried to get it, it came with two Disc-1's and no Disc-2's - Grr!)

The link below gives a pretty fair assessment of Lebrecht's slime-ridden writing on this subject, and concludes with this observation:
there are enough listeners out there who do not rely on the prevailing wisdom of critics when making decisions about music, and that should be taken as a good sign for listening!
The author also quotes a post which indicates the fuzzy mental state of Lebrecht's "fans":
Norman Lebrecht is a good writer. He may not report facts correctly, and he may not be able to predict the future, but he can certainly put compelling sentences and paragraphs together.
Unbelievable!