If your first recording is a HIPPite performance can it spoil you for others ?

[Barbirollians]

I was pondering this whilst listening to Walter's 1956 live Mozart Requiem from Salzburg . It is slow to my ears especially the Sanctus but the choral singing warms up nicely and the soloists are splendid ( well the alto is OK the other three are splendid especially della Casa ) and it is a moving , devotional performance but I learned the work from the Gardiner recording and it has made it quite hard for me to appreciate any performance with slower tempi - this Walter is about the only one that has ever won me over .

Is this just typical first recording syndrome or is it something that having a HIPP performance first might affect due to brisk tempi, clearer textures etc ? Or might it be because all others but HIPP are " arrangements " ?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

First acquaintances do have a huge impact, but I think it has greater significance when you are young. Furtwangler's Mozart 40 is a case in point - my first real introduction to classical music and with the fastest 1st movement ever, probably. The second performance I hear was Krips, possibly the slowest of all. Hearing the two so early in life may have made me realise that no one version is sacrosanct. As for "HIPP", that can mean almost anything.