To IMO: with reference to

your Schitlist:  For Schwarzkopf I had to make some concession--she married the head of EMI Records, L something.  She did however make a magnificent recording of Schubert songs with Edwin Fischer at the piano.....you're probably too young to have heard that.

On the other hand you may take some comfort with this anecdote:  Many, many years ago I accompanied my two dearest Finnish friends, Arno Karhilo and his lovely pianist wife Lisa, to hear the visiting Berlin Philharmonic at the old Constitution Hall conducted by one Karajan.  


They performed the Beethoven Sixth (a.k.a. Pastoral).  Furtwangler had just died and Karajan was clearly intent on 'outpacing' his Master in an Adagio molto espressivo.  Soon the Karhilos and I, who fortunately occupied a box where our outrageous behavior could be concealed as we rolled on the floor, desperately attempting to stifel our laughter.  It was so excruciatingly slow that you felt you were in an old choo-choo train that could barely negotiate the climb of the mountain........and we laughed and laughed and laughed....


I can think of no better way to desecrate the Parteimitglied's memory......