Did the first performance you heard influence your perception of a musical work?

Almost certainly 'yes'. Of course we all heard every piece of music for the first time once (something I tell 'lazy listeners' who stick to the same few pieces over and over again) and surely the performance that you heard first will stay with you forever. I still have some of the vinyl LPs I bought as a boy in the late 1960s/early 1970s and which introduced me to some of the better-known classical works:

Beethoven 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 - Leipzig Gewandhaus/Franz Konwitschny

Beethoven 3 - Royal Danish Orchestra/George Hurst

Beethoven 5, 9 - LSO/Josef Krips

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique - LSO/Eugene Goossens

Brahms 1 - LSO/Antál Doráti

Brahms 2 - Minneapolis SO/Doráti

Brahms 3 - Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel

Brahms 4 - Lamoureux/Igor Markevitch

Dvořák 9 - LPO/Hugo Rignold

Mozart 5, 21 & 29 - Netherlands Chamber Orchestra/Szymon Goldberg

Prokofiev 5 - Boston SO/Erich Leinsdorf

Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet - Czech Phil/Karel Ančerl

Rakhmaninov Sym 2 - Detroit SO/Paul Paray

Shostakovich 5 - Czech Phil/Ančerl

Stravinsky Rite of Spring - LSO/Eugene Goossens

Tchaikovsky 5 - LSO Malcolm Sargent

A couple of these performances (the ones by Goossens) gave me what I realised was not a well-rounded view of the music, while it was several year before I realised that the Paray version of the Rakhmaninov 2 was savagely cut (as was once quite normal), as was the finale of Tchaik's 5th.

I'm not sure I have been put off any work from a first encounter. Perhaps I have been lucky with my largely ignorant first choices.

I wonder if the link below might help you with your van Beinum problem?

Edit for 8tpprsv:

This question was answered in a couple of minutes from my memory banks. I dip in and out of Y!A throughout the day and only answer questions I can do so quickly as I am working. So, this question took as long to answer as typing the words.

For some other questions, I refer to my various lists and databases on music, amassed during my 30 years as a professional manager. Usually I can use my database to search for certain criteria and reproduce them on-screen in a matter of seconds. It's then just a matter of adding any 'extras' I was to add and pasting into the little Y!A box.

And anyway, this particular question is a very personal kind - anyone could answer with very different results to mine.

Yes and here is an oddity. In my youth I heard a recital live of Philippe Entremont and was enamored. Some 30 years later I found 2 CDs of the complete Mozart piano sonatas, same artist, enthusiastically bought it. It was recorded on a Bosendorfer SE reproducing piano system. I lack words to describe the depth of my disappointment.

I can only remember two first performances I've heard; and I've related theses incidents so many times on this forum, I really hesitate to post them again

But to respond to your question explicitly, I would have to say that I'm unable to judge: because my perception of the two has never changed - I loved them when I first heard them, still do(after more than 60 yrs. now)and probably always will.

I can say that my perception of some of the great composers music has changed; which I imagine is fairly commonplace. For many years I could not abide the music of Mozart and the great Bach; and must add that of Jean Sibelius whose music when first heard, left me totally unimpressed; but who eventually became one of my three favorite composers - the third being Tchaikovsky.

More weird still I suppose, is that a turn around came first with Sibelius, then Mozart and finally Bach.

Another idiosyncratic evolution is that even though I've loved Wagner's music all my life - the first two heard referenced above were piano transcriptions of excerpts from the Ring - I disliked/was unable to relate is probably more accurate, to the vocal lines of his operas; sounded all so silly and irrelevant to me when I first begin listening to radio-broadcast of them.

Bottom line I guess, is that it takes a longer time for some of us to come to an appreciation of some artist and their creations, than for others, and we all perceive the world from our own individual vantage/disadvantage, point.

Alberich

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