Speed ​​is not everything

As this Beethoven cycle end of the 90's, entered the market years, I thought: Wow, finally a modern, entschlackter and unromantisierter Beethoven, presented extremely quickly and so completely different from the known to me hitherto recordings once the usual Stardirigenten.Endlich someone takes the metronome markings Beethoven ernst.Damals I was in good company of most of the professional music critic.
Today, I see the whole thing clearly kritischer.Es but I lack something the passion, the subjective, the Opulenz.Das high tempo demands but its toll: The Tonhalle Orchestra is certainly very good, but it is not an absolute world-class orchestra, is able, even at extreme tempos always transparent and differentiated agieren.Dadurch go but some details are lost, many acts and rushed mechanisch.Dies is enhanced by the sound system, the sound image is flat, slightly sharp and the balance between the instrument groups is unbalanced.
In the meantime, I have some photographs from the repeatedly praised recording of the complete Beethoven symphonies of Leibowitz, which for years or not at all difficult to obtain waren.Obwohl this partly even higher tempos chosen as Zinman, I find in him much of what I at Zinman vermisse.Auch the sound quality is at Chesky Records to classes besser.Also who, "lean" a "fast", "modern" and yet passionate and detail-loving Beethoven wants is lifted clearly better at Leibowitz, in spite of almost 30 years (! ) difference in time between shots.
Nevertheless, I do not want the Zinman interpretation completely schlechtreden.Sie certainly has its merits, especially in performance technically she has asked the inherited Beethoven image in question - after hatte.Als Leibowitz probably forgotten largely sole Gesamtaufnahme I would rather not but recommend more.