In Reply to: RE: CB - please elaborate on this sentence: posted by C.B. on March 24, 2011 at 07:51:06:
but I don't see (hear) what you mean with regard to Mozart Symphony 39. I have the last six Mozart symphonies with Klemperer and the Philharmonia on stereo LPs, and I'm pretty sure they're the early 60s versions. But I've never found Klemperer's woodwinds and brasses especially inspiring, certainly not in those records. Their solo passages, which as you rightly point out are so important in the Mozart and Beethoven symphonies, are pushed forward in the mix, which is fine (and likely more due to the EMI engineers than the conductor). But they generally lack the sparkle and life I like to hear.
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