Robert Stumpf, II <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Well, he gutted the Philadelphia Orchestra of its rich Stokowski-Ormandy > sound...I found his interpretations hectic at best...he seemed to play > all of the notes and miss the music...I avoid any recordings of his... I'm not sure that's a negative. Toward the end of his tenure, Ormandy's Philadelphia was best at playing Tchaikovsky and, let's see...Tchaikovsky and, oh yeah, Tchaikovsky. Muti, I think, recorded a very credible Beethoven cycle, better than Ormandy's. The 7th is particularly good. The Sacre he did still works for me, too. "Ernest Robles" <[log in to unmask]> *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html