WRULT? (what are you listening to?)

ghce

I totally appreciate where you are coming from with regards to different artists and recordings specifically of Beethoven and in particular the Pastoral.
I too have my favorite and every other one I hear I compare to it and mostly unfavorably ( but never in a bad way ) so I will look forward to trying your favorite.

Here is mine but having said that I love EVERY recording that I hear, if there was ever music that really could put you in a state of bliss this is it, that said I can think of no Beethoven I do not adore, people talk of Mozart's genius and yes he was but to me Beethoven was on a whole other level.

Archer

Spent about 30 minutes looking for a specific recording of Beethoven’s 6th. My memory was leading me astray since I though it was a Berlin Philharmonic recording with Herbert von Karajan conducting (I listened to a lot of these back in the day). After hearing some very thin and stodgy versions, I resorted to digging into my old stash of vinyl to confirm the one I was after...

Okay, that’s why! Onto Tidal, et viola...

Walter’s take on this is my favourite, and although the recording has tape hiss, it is the most full and expansive sounding version I’ve heard. Love it!

Original recorded in 1958 and then remastered. My vinyl version is from 1981, which is a few years before I bought it (1983 probably). It’s fantastic...