Re: Bach / Brandenburg 1 / Philadephia / Klemperer / 1962 (live)

On 06/07/2024 07:07, DeepBlue wrote:

Roland van Gaalen wrote:

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On 01/07/2024 07:08, Pluted Pup wrote:
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 > What CD is that, is it on Archiphon? Or is this the
 > EMI performance of the Brandenburgs, recorded in
 > 1960 and released in 1962?
>
It's a live recording of the Philadelphia Orchestra, not
the Philharmonia Orchestra (as on the EMI recordings),

 This one?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q41WdMo4gkk

Yes.

 Sounds rather turgid to my ears.

Not to mine. Make sure you listen to the whole thing. The movements reinforce each other, as it were. The third movement is wonderful (in the same way as Mahler's Fourth Symphony) and the finale is quite powerful.
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Roland van Gaalen
The Netherlands