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Review title: Beethoven under glass
Product review: Surely the critics jest when they hold this set up as a serious and serviceable offering when it contains, by one critics reckoning "a senselessly rushed 'Pastoral'" and certainly the most superficial 8th ever recorded. Toss in a lackluster performances of Nos. 1 & 2 and a 7th that is, oh, all right, better than his earlier or later accounts of this most perplexing and difficult symphony to get right. So where does that leave us? - unsatisfied and outwitted by the Karajan PR juggernaut. Those of us who have to work hard in order to pay good $$ for our CDs deserve better. How about: Walter 1 & 2; Szell 3 & 8; C. Kleiber 4(live), 5 & 7; Bohm 6 & 9. At least one will have, in the hands of these masters, readings that remain committed and that may develop in time into deeply satisfying and long remembered experiences with these imperishable masterpieces. And what is more, one will have turned one's hard earned $$ into gold rather than aluminum.
