With Toscanini still alive and kicking in the same city, you wouldn't expect Mitropoulos to come up short in this symphony - in fact, this performance reminds me very much of Toscanini's recordings, other than the tempo fluctuations/ritardandi, but the string attack is very similar. And the sound is very big.
Unfortunately the sound is a little bit saturated.
Yeah agreed - unfortunately it was as found. I'm very careful to not overload any of my recordings of these reels.
With Toscanini still alive and kicking in the same city, you wouldn't expect Mitropoulos to come up short in this symphony - in fact, this performance reminds me very much of Toscanini's recordings, other than the tempo fluctuations/ritardandi, but the string attack is very similar. And the sound is very big.
Thanks for listening/watching!