Title: Warning - ponderous performance, dull sound.
Product review: I must caution readers against the previous misleading review. Only the scherzo is brisk in the Furtwängler tempo. The 3 big movements are all slower than Jochum's later recordings (except the final 1986 Concergebouw) and slower still than Furtwängler, with which it scarcely bears comparison. In this '35 version Jochum whips up the last 1 minutes of the first movement in the way Furtwängler did, but the previous twenty are comparatively stodgy. The sound doesn't help matters as the dull, slightly muffled quality robs the music of much textural detail.The best representatives of Jochum in this work are the 1958 DG Bavarian RO and the 1964 Philips Concertgebouw recordings. This issue is for "completists" and Jochum fans only !
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