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Double Bass Oberon Overture

Just wondering...Zimmerman's Mozart, Haydn, Weber works book show the Allegro con fuoco at 160 bpm=quarter notes (aaaaargh).

Looking at some major symphonies performing the piece on youtube, everyone seems to be more in the 130-140 bpm range.

Does anybody have a clip of an orchestra pushing the 160 mark? Has anyone on here gotten those 16th note lines clean at 160?