@999parzival Yes except that Nikisch really accelerates around 1:44 which Bohm doesn't do - I notice that in these early performances, conductors really speed things up in places modern conductors typically don't - you see this too in early Walter and Furtwangler.
@marcphilos And the story goes that if is indeed the live Gould/Bernstein performance, Bernstein addressed the audience before playing saying that he prodoundly disagreed with Gould's intepretation of the piece, viz that it was so slow! I also prefer a more up-tempo performance - try to hear th...
@999parzival Yes except that Nikisch really accelerates around 1:44 which Bohm doesn't do - I notice that in these early performances, conductors really speed things up in places modern conductors typically don't - you see this too in early Walter and Furtwangler.