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Don't you just love his ricochet technique that exits the cadenza

Oh no, don'ta break this during the wonderful cadenza ....it's like coitus interruptus!

Always enjoy this lovely little movement - have done since I was a kid. Nicely rendered too. Keep 'em coming!

Love those church acoustics - and the BIG Messiah. No boutique versions for this boy!

Old Beethoven and me have an uncomplicated relationship... his lovely music is always there for all of life's various moods and I just scatter rose petals in his path... pretty simple really

I wonder how this beautiful melody would have gone as the background to the final scenes of the movie Elvira Madigan - perfection surely.

This version is almost unbearably beautiful and I mean just that. Thanks for posting.

If one aims for the correct tempo (as you have here) the lyrics are difficult to render clearly with this piece. You've shown how a small ensemble does best with it - clear enunciation and pacy to boot. Good work!

Great balance for an amateur recording and troupe. The slow tempo is necessary with such large forces otherwise you'd end up with muddy diction. A professional chorus could do it, but not otherwise. Good work!

This symphony evokes great sentiment for me - it was the first record I bought on leaving school in 1956 - the Mozart Bicentennial Year. The conductor was the incomparable Mozart conductor Bruno Walter. The orch was the Columbia Symphony - a 2-disk record of the full rehearsal and finished perfor...

@ccoraxfan While I agree with yr sentiments in general, the cost of overhauling "the real thing" was far beyond the small congregation's means. All this was debated seemingly endlessly at the time but the outcome was quite satisfactory. The original instrument remains in place and its ersatz r...

It is often said of old troupers that they ought to have known when to retire. But every now & then someone hassufficient of that special elusive "gravitas" to rise above such criticism and to be forgiven. Callas is one of these rare exceptions and we're the better for it

Please clear this up for me as I can't find anything said here that does .... where does the Hinz organ come into this - are we actually hearing an historic organ in the Netherlands or (as the visual suggests) an electronic instrument in someone's lounge room? Whichever, the sound and perfor...

I've always felt that this is far & away the loveliest introductions of all the Johann Strauss waltzes - as ever, set off best by the lilt of the zither. Without that, don't play it at all. Well captured here. Good work.

Glad to see someone remember Bruno Walter, IMO the most able lyricist in all conducting. For one thing I believe his Mozart is unsurpassed. His Beethoven Fifth (New York Philharmonic) is right up there too. Even his recording of the Johann Strauss Waltzes I can't see past. "Gone but not forgotten"

One of those little gems that very occasionally pop up in filmdom to stay with you

Gabidra 1 - Sorry if unclear. The full intro has a rustic charm topped off by the musical lilt of the zither. IMO a Swiss yodel expressed in music. Hear it and I'm sure you'll agree that somehow we're missing something, especially as the entire uncut waltz will fit within the 10-minute time sl...

Nice version. I often think this Suppe overture is unfairly overlooked in the rush to the better-known ones - don't quite know why either

Very very good - IMO equal to my Kleiber/Concertgebouw classic of the 1950s and THAT for many years was the standard against which all others were measured - I hope your posting receives many more hits

Yep - too ponderous but would sound really great with this ensemble and acoustics if taken at a faster tempo

The uploader's name is pretty apt - this recording dates from the mid-1950s. I bought the 45RPM edition and in my youth played it so often it practically come off the turntable in a continuous strip! At the time all my friends were busy playing some stupid thing I never did get the hang of, call...

If someone has it could they post Gould/American Symphony Orch/Stokowski recording the Emperor?? I taped it from radio years ago but can't find the actual record. Heady stuff, great acoustics

Right on the edge of controllability - just like a BIG stadium! Wonder who was conducting and from where. Great stuff .

The BBC tried a TV version of the show, using puppets, in the mid-1960s but it wasn't a success because the surreal humour lay totally in the imagination. For instance I know exactly how my favourite character, Major Dennis Bloodnok - the venal corrupt immoral old soak, late of the Fourth Devon...

This is my favourite version - reveals the full stateliness and strength. Recorded before the the annoying trend developed to dart in spasms through the score (the awful "authentic" approach!)

Never thought I'd say this --- but move over Renata Tebaldi

Perhaps the whole thing with the intro is a bit long for You Tube settings, but a two-part posting with the exquisite intro (including the lovely lilt of the zither) would be magic. How about it someone?

Yes, but is it ART?

Very, very good. With imagination the sky's the limit

What a stroke of genius. Wish I'd been there!

Poetry in motion. The NASA film of the Apollo 10 Lunar Orbiter circling the moon used the Blue Danube as the background music. Magic

I can rub my tummy with my left hand while simultaneously patting my head with my right. I was able to do this at 15 years of age. We all have hidden talent if we care to try looking for it

For me the ending is just right - a al Barenboim / Chicago Symphony. Except that with Barenboim the timpani ends its last roll with an emphatic tap just before the orchestra finishes the note. A small thing but a brilliant effect.

I don't care a fig about the opinions of the dilettante, illuminati, sidewalk superintendents or anyone else.. IMO Berganza does the "best" Bel Raggio and Selva Opaca on record. In 40 years I've never found better. Thanx for posting

This was the theme to the film Death In Venice, used hauntingly in a film shot in a soft light reminiscent of a Watteau landscape. Starred Dirk Bogarde. Videoed it from TV once but lost the tape. Pity we don't get more of these but they are more of an Art Cinema genre so don't get a high popular...

If you want a really great version, try to hear Klemperer/Philharmonia Orch, recorded 1972 on EMI. Great balance, dynamics and acoustics, perfectly paced crescendi. Like to wind this up on Big Stereo - when neighbours are away

The Adagietto was used as the theme in Death In Venice, starring Dirk Bogarde - in the 1970s I think. Hauntingly beautiful and my first introduction to the piece. Loved it then and still do