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I was truing to figure out what was my most impressive musical experience in just past year. After a little consideration and without naming the nominees I'm declaring the winner:

Brahms Symphony #4 by Sir John Barbirolli and Wiener Philharmoniker during thier “live” performance at Musikvereinssaal, December 1967.  This performance is practically not available now. It was released by a small Holland label (ROY 6435) with a mistaken information about the recording venue (the Hollandian Morons clamed that it was recorded at Abbey Road Studio #1 in 1990 or 20 years after Barbirolli was dead). There is no other known to me releases of this performance. It is also was available as LP by EMI ASD2433 (if someone would help me to find this record I would pay a lot of money)

Anyhow, this is an amassing performance, had and shoulders more interesting then any other Brahms #4 that I heard. The opening of the first movement Barbirolli dose something mind-bogglingly transcendent. I never hear anyone play Brahms this way and I hardly ever hear anyone do such hypnotizingly-fantastic thing with music.

The Cat

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