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In the Thread: One of the Best Mozart Requiems!
Post Subject: Re: Mozart's Requiems Posted by clarkjohnsen on: 3/12/2006
Romy wrote: "what is interesting the he proposes Scherchen as some kind of cult or some kind of off-mainstream?"
No, not at all! He wrote: "Who on earth was Scherchen? I soon found out, and Beecham and Walter soon became history. And thus began a personal love affair with the music making of this quixotic conductor that has persisted ever since."
I think that's rather too tough on Beecham, who shares with Scherchen the honors for best recording of Symphonie Fantastique, but clearly the writer is a Scherchen fan and agrees with the two of us, that his first Mozart Requiem is the best ever.
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