Something profound (updated).
This blog is where I tourette (including about evils like ‘verbing’ nouns). But thanks to my association with The Beagle Project it has been getting some attention of late, so perhaps it is time to say something profound.
The greatest recording in the world is Carlos Kleiber’s version of Beethoven’s fifth and seventh symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic.
If the first movement of the fifth doesn’t move you big numbers on the Richter scale, have a friend ring an embalmer or SETI because you’re dead or a strange cloth-eared alien.
Deutsche Grammophon 447 400-2. No Amazon link, support your local shops.
Update: I knew Richard Carter of Gruts would object, dissent, or aver. He has, in comments.
January 29, 2008 at 6:56 pm
No, the greatest recording in the world is Captain Beefheart’s ‘Electricity’… The Captain’s final bellow, when you hear the microphone throw up its hands in disgust and cry ‘That’s it! I quit!’ is something to be heard.
From Beethoven to Beefheart in one post. That’s quite a musical range.
January 29, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Well Beethoven experimented with ear trumpets, but never completed a concerto for them.