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Date: | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:31:28 -0800 |
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Walter Meyer wrote:
>I've started listining to them in sequence, appropriately impressed as I
>listened, until I came upon his performance of Beethoven's Fourth (Carnegie
>Hall broadcast 1951). All of a sudden the grandeur of that symphony, so
>often deemed overshadowed by the symphonies straddling it, hit me w/ the
>proverbial blinding flash, the way no previous performance has done. This
The fourth is a great symphony but one, I think, that takes a while to
appreciate. I remember the moment I first encountered it. I was at work
and had it on my portable cd player. I think the first thing I thought was
"this guy [Beethoven] was a nutcase!" or some such. It's taken a while, a
lot of listenings and playing it several times in an orchestra to really
appreciate it. But it is *wonderful*! (Congrats, Walter, on your newest
musical love!)
-Lindsey Orcutt
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