Zinman's the one they mentioned, thanks to Jhold for that. Sounds like I should look into the Harnoncourt ones too.
Actually, the original question I asked in Indy was as follows...
Back in 1979 or 1980, I went to the Kennedy Center for a performance of Beethoven's 5th, among other things. I do not remember the other things on the program. This was, by quite a margin, the most exciting, thrilling, and, to me, emotional reading of the 5th I've ever heard--before or since. I am not one who gives a standing ovation at every performance, although it seems to have become de riguer over the past twenty or so years. But there was no holding back on this performance. Frankly, it was like no other performance that I can remember that did not have the benefit of words (or pictures!) to augment the emotion of the music alone. The guy in Indanapolis (darn if I can't remember the name of that store... it's up on the north side of the city in a little strip mall next to a fairly big camera store) thought that I might have been referring to Zinman. Harnoncourt might have been another candidate, although thinking about what I've read, I think that the research that went into these performances was substantially later (five to eight years) than the performance I remember...
Actually, the original question I asked in Indy was as follows...
Back in 1979 or 1980, I went to the Kennedy Center for a performance of Beethoven's 5th, among other things. I do not remember the other things on the program. This was, by quite a margin, the most exciting, thrilling, and, to me, emotional reading of the 5th I've ever heard--before or since. I am not one who gives a standing ovation at every performance, although it seems to have become de riguer over the past twenty or so years. But there was no holding back on this performance. Frankly, it was like no other performance that I can remember that did not have the benefit of words (or pictures!) to augment the emotion of the music alone. The guy in Indanapolis (darn if I can't remember the name of that store... it's up on the north side of the city in a little strip mall next to a fairly big camera store) thought that I might have been referring to Zinman. Harnoncourt might have been another candidate, although thinking about what I've read, I think that the research that went into these performances was substantially later (five to eight years) than the performance I remember...