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... I unintentionally told a lie. Indeed I have all four performances of Horenstein KTL (Rehkemper, Forster, Anderson, and Baker). They are all, as it were,
Which implies that conductors who don't care for clarity and precision (Furtwaengler being a typical case, I guess) are weak.  Best,  George, ... Από:
Jens mentions the Mahler-Berio connection, as expressed in the latter's "Sinfonia." I believe that, back in the '90s, there was a Teldec disc including