Deryk Barker wrote:

>>Old faithful-to-the-score Toscanini made a huge cut in the last movement
>>of the Manfred Symphony.

to which John Dalmas replied:

>This wasn't the only change in the Manfred.

Some versions of Manfred have a number of strokes on what I think is
a tam-tam near the end of the first movement - in some it sounds like a
cymbal.  I *think* this was introduced by Toscanini, although it's more
the sort of thing Stokowski would have done.

Richard Pennycuick
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