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  • Re: �SFBC shutting down�

    From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 10 21:02:27 2025
    On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:07:38 GMT, [email protected] (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:


    MHS always sent me records in boxes marked "Delicate Classical Music >>Enclosed." But the music wasn't always delicate. Sometimes it was
    heavy and ponderous. I got the von Karajan set of Beethoven symphonies
    and it was anything but delicate.

    I also got that one. I still consider it the best version of the
    9th on vinyl (the tenor, in particular, was fine).

    I bought that set when I was in university some 40 years ago but
    unfortunate put a scratch in the 2nd movement of the 9th which makes
    it painful - at least the 4th movement (the last one including the
    choral) plays well though my hearing has declined to the point that
    the youtube version sounds good.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Fri Jan 10 21:04:21 2025
    On 7 Jan 2025 14:41:53 -0000, [email protected] (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

    There are actually two von Karajan sets, the 1963 set and the one from
    the 1980s. The 1963 set was had the later symphonies performed much
    slower, but the recording quality was good. The set from the 1980s had >better tempi on the later symphonies but the recording quality was
    plagued by an excess of fooling around.

    Neither one of them have what I would consider good recordings of the
    first two symphonies, which are stylistically very different than the
    later ones and really need a different sort of orchestra.

    True - the first two sound more like they were written by Mozart or
    Handel than the man who wrote the Eroica much less the 9th.

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