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Entry: Happy 276th, Papa! Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/happy_276th_papa#22345 Post contents: Well, Fletcher, you find Haydn wanting. If memory serves right, Toscanini said that all of Mozart sounded the same to him, and his recording of Haydn's "Surprise" is a joke, trying to turn the andante movement into a late Beethovenian/Brucknerian adagio. Beecham isn't any better. The divine Furtwängler couldn't conduct anything before Beethoven. Walter's Mozart is equally too Romantic. It took Karl Richter to get people to start playing Bach un-Romantically, Karl Böhm Mozart, and Eugen Jochum Haydn. Yet fair is fair: I never thought Rachmaninoff more than just elevated cocktail music. To each his own. Sent at: 2009 01 09