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I wrote:
>... Beecham is my favorite Sibelius conductor, period. Oh, if only, if
>only he'd recorded the 3rd and the 5th and the 4 Legends, ...
and Deryk Barker asked:
>>Did he perform them? Seems to me Beecham was genearlly a man who knew his
>>limitations and avoided works he wasn't in sympathy with. Generally, that
>>is. If you've ever heard a Beecham Beethoven 9th...
I guess my wish was sort of paradoxical-- Beecham only performed the
3rd and 5th once each, so he obviously either didn't connect with them or
didn't feel he was the man for the job. No... I definitely don't wanna
hear him do B's 9th. Did he ever record the 6th though? One thing that
threw me for a loop was in the liner notes to Barbirolli's Mahler 5 in the
new EMI packaging, they say that Beecham recorded Mahler's 9th in 1937.
Now of that I have absolutely no idea what to think. Ever heard it?
Jon Lewis
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