Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Raymond Leppard was a superb Handelian, and his box of the complete orchestral work ought never to have gone out of print, which is exactly what happened, naturally.
Raymond Leppard was a superb Handelian, and his box of the complete orchestral work ought never to have gone out of print, which is exactly what happened, naturally.



![Ask Dave: Why is it a bad thing to hear the clarinets at the start of Beethovens Fifth?
A classical newbie asks: I am a newbie to classical music, so [this] might be a silly question: but why being able to hear the clarinets which are written into the piece is a bad thing? Ask Dave: Why is it a bad thing to hear the clarinets at the start of Beethovens Fifth?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kMqtdXsM6MI/mqdefault.jpg)






