Drum is so prevalent in the first movement 
30 plus years hasn’t dimmed the memory of hearing this supreme artist perform at Carnegie Hall.
That artistry is on full display in these 2 beautifully recorded discs.
Gretchen am Spinnrade & Ave Maria alone are worth the price of the first disc.
Nice Opera News interview for those interested
https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2012/7/Features/Reunion__Elly_Ameling.html
Fabulous performance (Wild was one of the great pianists of the 20t century), beautifully recorded. The Analogue Productions SACD (also available on lp) is terrific.
Gretchen am Spinnrade: always moves me to tears. Written when he was around 17. Unbelievable. My favorite version is with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
I have an older CD of Ameling singing Schubert lieder, featuring An die Musik, and I love it.
Saw them perform Beethoven’s 6th (the 9th was also on the program) at Lincoln Center. Great performances which is why I bought this on SACD. Also have the Mahler 7th, though after seeing Honeck perform it with the Pittsburgh Symphony, I would like to see them record it for Reference Recordings.
Recorded in 1955 (I have the SACD) this was one of the earliest RCA Living Stereo recordings. Though a different reading with Ozawa (see below) 28 years later the BSO was still hitting this one out of the park.
The first concert I took my then 12 year old daughter, a 2nd year school orchestra violinist, to was a BSO/Ozawa performance of the Pathetique. 7th row center, after the 3rd movement she leaned over and said, “they’re even better than we are.”
Lovely, isn’t it!