I’ve recently been listening to the #Toscanini #Beethoven symphonies from 1951 & 1952. I've not heard these in years, so I was surprised at how much I disliked them. It was a lot like listening to #Norrington. It's all like Newton's first law of motion: an object moving in a straight line at a constant velocity staying forever in a straight line at the same speed. A marble statue has more flexibility.