[Harry Lavo]

"Jenn" wrote in message
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Does anyone here have experience with Everest's original recordings or
with the Classic reissues? I picked up three of them on a very brief
trip to San Francisco this week, but I won't get to hear them until
later today. The only two recordings from that trip that I've heard so
far are yet another volume of Bach Cantatas by Gardiner/English Baroque
Soloists, which are really fine sounding CDs (not to mention FAB
performances), and a Classic Records LP reissue of Walter doing Brahms
4, originally a Columbia recording. Mixed results there. I had
forgotten how good some early Columbia recordings were, before John
McClure made all of those bad sounding Bernstein recordings. The highs
are kind of dry, but the mids and bass are really good. The playing is
mixed; the conducting is fantastic.

In fact, I prefer Walter's Brahms series over all others I've heard (which
doesn't come close to all of them, I'll readily admit). I've tried to
analyze why, and I think it is because he eschews retards and keeps what I
can only call a "singing tempo" going throughout each movement of each
piece. There is a consistency, a "whole clotheness", a propolsive forward
movement to his interpretations that others often lack. Same is true with
his Beethoven series.

Am I barking up an imaginary tree, Jenn. Or if you understand what I am
getting at, can you explain it in more expert terms?