RRod
Headphoneus Supremus
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I listened the first movement to a few other recordings of Tchaikovsky's 6th, some just the first movement, on Apple Music today, including Stokowski and Dorati, and none of them have the same type of problem. So I think you're probably right--it may well have been the conductor. If so, I wonder what the recording engineer thought when he had to deal with it.
On Jansons' Shostakovich 8 he really takes the orchestra down to nothing in the slow movement. Great atmosphere but no one else seems to do it and it turns the album from 'I are serious listener' to 'make sure the AC is off'.