David Stewart wrote about sleeping through the final passages of VW's Third
Symphony, then being awoken with a joly by the thunderous opening of the
Fourth. On this basis, he also criticised the coupling of VW's Third and
Fourth on the same disc.
I always sleep through Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. I can never stay awake
when they get to that bit with the cannons firing and bells clanging.
Ian Foster
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