an entirely personal selection of favourite Bruckner recordings," and "I listen to a recording primarily applying only one criterion: do I enjoy it?" which is fair enough and, to be fair to Ralph, following the links to individual recordings he does describe the various virtues and defects he perceives in them in order to support his choice.
What I can't accept easily - and what I would find very confusing if I was just "getting in" to a particular composer is if someone says "this or that is too slow, too fast, too loud, too soft etc.," without any explanation of what basis they've formed their opinions on. Otherwise I'd advise anyone just discovering the music to try to listen to recordings themselves in order to determine , as Ralph says, "Do Ienjoy it>"
You've perhaps forgotten, Jeffrey - this correspondence has been going on for quite a while now - that right at the start, on 2 February in fact - both Ralph Moore and I provided exactly the sort of links which you suggest.
Hopefully, those links plus various suggestions from other contributors will have given Noah the information he needs. Maybe now is the time to declare this correspondence closed?
In that case why not provide Noah with a link or two to such reviews rather than let a message board carry on seemingly-endlessly with contributors - who he probably doesn't know from Adolphe Adam - making unsupported claims, other than their own personal preferences, for the virtues of various versions ?
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