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clarkjohnsen wrote:

First, the Fifth: The first movement is indeed a stunner, nothing comes close. For the rest, I can line up competition. But no matter! The "live" aspect trumps all.

Hm, I would not name the only first movement. I think the second and the last movements, and patricianly the LAST Movement were nothing then stunning. BTW, the entire evening was phenomenal. That evening opened with the Britten’s “Simple Symphony for Strings” Op4. Masur and CSO were ammasing. The second movement of the Simple Symphony was in the best tradition of the Marvinsky’s third movement of the Tchaikovsky IV. Then, there was the Hayden’s “La Reine de France”. Clark, this Hayden was like NOTHING else! If you head somebody plays the first moment of the 85th Symphony like the Bruckner’s Ninth second movement (actually there are some similarities in phraseology) then you head what Kurt Masur did with Hayden. I will put the first part of that concerto on your disk as well.

Rgs,
The cat

PS: BTW, I juts converted the Verdi from 24.88 to 16/44 and lost a huge amount of “sound”…

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