Nick Perovich wrote:
>... they played the last movement of Kubelik's 1953 version of
>Hindemith's SYMPHONIC METAMORPHOSIS OF THEMES BY WEBER, and, as the saying
>goes, I was floored. It was some of the most exciting music-making I had
>ever heard. So I was delighted when I learned it was available again on
>the Mercury Living Presence CDs, but I was also a bit anxious. Does anyone
>share my enthusiasm for this reading or have similar tales to tell of
>returning with trepidation to recordings heard long ago?
I reviewed this disc recently in ARG. I had the same reaction to it that
you did. It's a wonderfully alive performance.
Roger Hecht