This is an excellent "Eroica" with an especially fine finale. It joins my other past favorite performances, including Koussevitzky (who got a unique "snap" into the horn passage in the scherzo's trio [33:19] that I've never heard duplicated), Monteux, and Horenstein. Cluytens offers a softer-hued performance which is effective nonetheless, perhaps not providing an immediate impact so much as a remembered strength. He understood what makes Beethoven's music live and breathe.
@philmixer5 жыл бұрын
This is the first version of the eroic a that I heard. For me, the best. Heard this about45 years ago. A magnificent rendition.
@francispanny50684 жыл бұрын
right up there with Fricsay and the same orchestra.
@kennethdower74253 жыл бұрын
@@francispanny5068 You sound like a broken record!
@easy12534 жыл бұрын
One of the four very great performances of it, the others being Konwitschny, Swarowsky with the Bamberg (South German Ph.), Vaclav Neumann, and Matacic.
@HansDunkelberg12 жыл бұрын
I also think it can only be four, if one of the best five would have to be Konwitschny.
@extrasalt45957 ай бұрын
According to you. Others may not concur fully. Hoomeyow!!
@Opoczynski5 жыл бұрын
Most satisfying.
@HansDunkelberg12 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, you're hitting the mark. This is an _optimistic_ account.
@francispanny50684 жыл бұрын
Recorded around the same time as Fricsay with the same orchestra.