Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=93SFBC_shutting_down?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=94?= Date: 7 Jan 2025 14:41:53 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <_kSeP.17356$jUJ9.15963@fx08.iad> Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="20960"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 2198 Paul S Person wrote: >On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:07:38 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) >wrote: > >>kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes: >>>Paul S Person wrote: >>>> >>>>Or MHS, from which I built a large collection of very good (if very >>>>old) music. >>> >>>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). > >If you are referring to /9 Symphonien/, it's available on CD as well. >I listen to it when it comes up on my Final Playlist. 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. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."