tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post2835890728224357978..comments2024-03-25T16:51:04.370-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Ionarts at Large: Beethoven's Ninth for 2009Charles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-23334707223062894402009-01-07T08:42:00.000-05:002009-01-07T08:42:00.000-05:00Thanks so much for a very thoughtful review. I en...Thanks so much for a very thoughtful review. I enjoyed reading your perspective. I also enjoyed looking at your references to discs with the 9th symphony. Although I've only listened to a couple of them, I can only add that, for me, the one that still remains head and shoulders above the others is the VonKarajan/Berlin Philharmonic recording from (I think) 1963. <BR/><BR/>It's possible that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-46890896033019550202009-01-05T13:53:00.000-05:002009-01-05T13:53:00.000-05:00As ever your reviews are detailed and insightful! ...As ever your reviews are detailed and insightful! As a keen concert goer and collector of recorded music this review evoked a response in me. Over the years I have experienced such sensations when the "theatre" of live performance carried this listener along even when execution was fallible.I'm not referring to tiny smudges but marked fudges.Obviously there is an emotional response to performanceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com