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Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER
Hi Skybird
I am not into the technicalities of the piece. This was a Chandos DDD recording from 1984 which was when CD recordings were still in their infancy. Very few performances are ever performed to the original scores as they were written by the composer. Conductors perogative. If I listen to a piece and it sounds good then to me that is ok. Do you have a favourite version?
Best Wishes Peter
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Not really, but I have tended to slightly prefer the version by Mravinsky and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded in 1960. But he is quite fast, and sometimes too fast maybe. This version now I like slightly better. The Karajan recording (Vienna) was too monotonous, imo. The last version I know is by unknown, a radio recording I had ion cassette tape. My father (who was a classical musician) said it could have been Günther Wand and one of the German radio orchestras, but he is not certain.
If not comparing different music styles, but different interpretations of one and the same piece, then it pretty much boils down to questions of taste. I do not wish to say by that that all music comparisons between two different styles and traditions, are just about taste - there are objective differences and yes, there is a hierarchy of quality to some degree.
I do not care for digital sound quality if the performance of the orchestra/musician/performer justifies to ignore that. Disc or tape or vinyl record, that is just the medium. Sometimes the old recordings just are better in musical value.