Romantic and Late Romantic works often fall victim to syrupy renditions that the composer would never have sanctioned. Good that some conductors know better than to turn their masterpieces into Muzak.

Actually, with the versions on YT that I've heard, the conductors play this too fast. They got exactly the right tempo here.

I think this ties in with the earlier comments about the ""long intros": Both the intros and this tempo are better for dancing the waltz, as opposed to just listening to it at a concert. The intros give dancers time to get into position, while the slower tempo makes for a less frenetic dance - important at an event where the dancers are not professionals (and yes, I have been at such a dance where this was played, along with "Le Patineurs" and "An der Schönen, Blauen Donau")

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This and the one Fedoseyev conducts :)

And the repeats, too.