Thanks for your reply. I have the Cluytens box and will listen to it now- I have spare time, wait a minute, have to take the Swiss Shepherd for a walk,
I'm a wine drinker, will raise a glass or two in your honour as I listen
Delighted to see Cluytens get an honourable mention. Not only fine performances well recorded but available for around £10.(in the UK) When I am ever asked for a recommendation forna newcomer to classical music and Beethoven, this is my choice. Honest, no eccentricities and the grandeur is there.
Dieter - with you all the way for Sanderling!
Enjoy a bottle of Berglund whilst listening!!
I have no choice other than to agree with you Dieter. As our esteemed Editor in Chief has rightly decreed, Music Web International is a broad church which respects and gives a platform to all tastes, but I have to say that I absolutely loathe what I have heard of Nézet-Séguin’s new Beethoven cycle which strikes me as being criminally anaemic, under-powered and under-played, minitiaturising and denuding the music of all grandeur. The "Eroica" has all the heroism of a limp noodle. Back to Karajan, Cluytens, Konwitschny, Toscanini and Furtwängler et al for me.
All very well, my friend. However, just listen to the 2nd movement of Symphony 2 as conducted by Kurt Sanderling, also on DG, Leningrad Phil, 1956. Then play Nequet's prosaic run-through and ask yourself, who is making music? I have no further questions, your honour.
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