radiohlite
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that track on Yes's "Fragile" where Wakeman plays the scherzo from Brahms' 4th Symphony. Made me cringe the first few times, now I just skip it.
Originally Posted by Currawong /img/forum/go_quote.gif Every interpretation of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor other than Peter Hurford's I find to range between pathetic and pretentious. This was a piece of work Bach used to stress test organs by pulling out all the stops and it should bloody well sound world-ending epic. |
Originally Posted by mbhaub /img/forum/go_quote.gif 1) Kalinnikov symphony 1 with Scherchen on Archipel. Hard to believe how he stretches it so out of shape. |
Originally Posted by Lex2 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Anne-Sophie Mutter's Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (later version, with the Korngold). Vibrato taken to the extreme as to sound ludicrous. |