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Glockenspiel or tubular chimes in Sibelius Fourth?

Yeah, I'm dredging up this subject again. There was a recent post on the rec.music.classical.recordings newsgroup which pretty succinctly summarizes why the tubular chimes people (Ansermet, Maazel, Bernstein, Blomstedt, et al) are wrong, wrong wrong! Here's the copy and paste of a couple of key points:
Sibelius definitely wanted glockenspiel. The first edition had glock. which was mistaken for Glocken. Sibelius said that tubular bells sounded "too oriental." Source: Andrew Barnett [Yale University Press, 2007]. . .

Beecham's 1937 recording is special because it was approved by the composer.

I invite anyone who is interested in this subject to listen to the Beecham recording and tell me what is heard in the last movement. It is by no stretch of the imagination tubular chimes.

QED - Let's put this "controversy" to bed now!




Edits: 04/06/15

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Topic - Glockenspiel or tubular chimes in Sibelius Fourth? - Chris from Lafayette 13:37:16 04/06/15 (2)

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