All of us know the "First Favorite Syndrome" where a performance gets imprinted on a particular listener -- it becomes the way the music is supposed to go. For this listener, William Steinberg's stunning Capital recording of this symphony, way back in the late 1950s, had this effect.Now, Alun Francis and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra have taped an account of it that shoves the Steinberg version aside. Steinberg's is so good that it took two hearings to accomplish this, but this writer finds that the symphony has ...
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All of us know the "First Favorite Syndrome" where a performance gets imprinted on a particular listener -- it becomes the way the music is supposed to go. For this listener, William Steinberg's stunning Capital recording of this symphony, way back in the late 1950s, had this effect.Now, Alun Francis and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra have taped an account of it that shoves the Steinberg version aside. Steinberg's is so good that it took two hearings to accomplish this, but this writer finds that the symphony has acquired an urgency and drama that it did not have in the earlier LP. (Moreover, EMI's re-release on CD needs remastering to cure a seriously over-emphasized top register.)Steinberg did a very nice job of presenting a drama in each of the three movements. In the first movement, for instance, he rose through a statement of power in the grotesque march of the central part to a reposeful conclusion. Francis imbues tension to the opening pages, and does not seek repose at the end of...
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