Thank you too, for the link (but always hard to hear correctly on my tinny PC speakers). Have you ever heard a Toscanini performance of LvB's Seventh Symphony? I thought I knew 'fast'. Then I heard Toscanini.
Last edited by Quijote; 10-21-2007, 06:35 PM.
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My first exposure to Beethoven nearly 40 years ago, other than random snatches of the 5th and 9th, was Toscanini's recording of the Eroica with the NBC symphony. I still remember the shock of the opening as if it were yesterday. WHAM! [silence] WHAM! [silence} Doo-di-doo, di-doo-di-doo-doo. It totally knocked my socks off, and then it knocked my shoes off, and then it messed up my hair. And the rest is history.
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