Title: Humpty-dumpty a la fantastique
Product review: Unless someone's a Klemperer completist, I can't imagine why anyone would want this Fantastique. It's an odd old schnitzel: the screwy tempi, the Teutonic cast of the orchestra, the somewhat movie soundtrack result are the only things that make half-sense of the Humperdinck as a coupling.For that's all we get: a Hummel-gothic children's story that makes for thigh-slapping hoak. Outside the German repertoire, Klemperer would make real sense in Slavic music, modern and contermporary music, but French music left him pretty much defenseless and we wonder if there is any rationale for perpetuating something like this.For the Fantastique: your best bets are Paray (extraoridinary), Munch, Argenta, Markevitch, Martinon. For the Humperdinck, keep it at a filler level and take your pick or chances, whichever.
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