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Review title: Simply Overrated
Product review: Okay. Let's agree that the Berlin Philharmonic in the 60s was a bunch of fantastic musicians. Let's also agree that Von Karajan was a man of iron will, who knew what he wanted and how to get it. Let's agree that Deutsche Gramophone was probably the state of the art in recording in the period.But that's it. The 6th Symphony virtually everyone agrees is awful. Listen to Bruno Walter (with an inferior outfit -- the Columbia Symphony) and one quickly sees what is missing from this recording. In the 9th, the chorus is shrill, and the 3rd movement totally uninvolved -- pick up the Furtwangler for a totally awesome, hair-raising performance. The first and second lack Mozartian grace -- listen to Szell and Cleveland!The best of the set is the 5th -- all sturm and drang as it should be -- but even here, the Carlos Kleiber, also with the Berlin, is a superior recording.I expect this set will fade with time as an interesting period piece, but with no strong lasting value.
