Nick, I think you will find that "convo" is a jocular yoofspeak abbreviation for "conversation" and thus "sinopolizing" is a pun on monopolising that conversation by ensuring that Sinopoli comes out on top - but quite where that leaves us with Tilson Thomas' excellent "Heldenleben", I am not quite sure...although my colleague Marc Bridle praises Sinopoli's live performance of it in the Albert Hall in 1990: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2021/Apr/Sinopoli-remembering.htm and another may be heard on YouTube:
As a Sinopoli devotee, I am intrigued.
Thankyou to Sinopolizing The Convo (what is a Convo and why would/could you Sinopolize it....?!) for recommending the MTT Heldenleben. I picked up a cheap copy and enjoyed it very much indeed. The orchestra play wonderfully, the violions solos are suitably virtuosically capriccious and the engineering in Watford Town Hall is rich and full. I thought this was a well characterised and drammatic version too so it would go into my top half dozen recordings I think.
You miss MTT's LSO version on Columbia/Sony. Perhaps the best since Reiner's but in better sound. Give it a spin.
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