Title: Home run for Stokowski
Product review: When I was young, this recording of Brahms symphony 3 was one reason I took an interest in classical music. It was the standard for other recordings. It has great sound separation, and if Stokowski tinkered with the score, it just adds sparkle to a marvelous score. That was decades ago, and I have perhaps 5 recordings of #3 in my library, and this is the favorite. As for Steinburg, his rendition is passable but nothing to write home about. Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein, Szell, Ormandy all seem better to me. But I'd love this disc if it was Stokowski and Joe Nobody and the Jerkwater Philharmonic doing the second selection. The complaints of other reviewers leave me astonished. Are they listening to the right disc? This is a Romantic composer interpreted by a Romantic conductor with a penchant for recording quality, and the result is marvelous.
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