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i've got a couple of versions of this, one from 1962 by walter goehr who was a german jew that fled the nazis to england in the 30s and went on to score the music for david lean's great expectations and conducted the uk premiere of turangalila amongst other things. kind of just an adequate performance afaict, made worse by the fact that you have to turn the record over *halfway through the adagio* right at the quietest, most delicate moment(hoves didn't really write this thing around the lp format did he?). the other one i have is h von k's version from his 60s cycle, and that one is storming tbh. i know it's a tired thing to say but the way the sound shimmers and shakes on that is fantastic. oh i also have a record called 'karajan in reheasal' which is him putting the orchestra through their paces for the 9th from that same era, but i haven't actually got round to listening to that yet.
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 20 March 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
One of the things I was thinking about super-popularized classical pieces is that you often get simplified versions of them in popular culture that lose the best nuances. For example it occurred to me that one of my favorite things about the Ode to Joy is the way the last "A" section of the melody (if you think of it as AABA) has that full-beat anticipation on the F#, like that's a crucial part of the melody and it's much more boring and stupefying if you just play the last A section the same as the other two.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Friday, 21 March 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link