Ramon Khalona ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I would never be counted as a Barenboim enthusiast (in fact, I was
>secretly hoping that he would be chosen in Berlin so that Chicago could
>find a better leader), but the last sentence above is simply not true.
>Barenboim's repertoire, particularly in the Germanic repertoire, is much
>broader than Rattle's and to say that Rattle is "without question superior"
>can only be justified as a case of acute anglophilia.

I may be comparing Golden Delicious to Macintosh, but Rattle's recent
VPO Pastoral is streets ahead of Barenboim's Choral; seems to me SR is
likely the better Beethoven conductor.

Deryk Barker
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