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Title: Erich Kleiber's Beethoven
Review: After reading other reviews of this recording I was expecting an excellent performance, and I was not disappointed. It is vibrant, with a powerful forward driving force in both the III and V symphonies. Beautifully cohesive performances which strongly remind me of Talich's recording od Dvorak's New World symphony in the way the works are treated as a unit. The sound is a little tubby by modern standards but the ear quickly attunes to this. Overall, performances well worth having and to my ears more satisfying than Kleiber's later recording with the Vienna Phil (although the sound recording is of better quality).
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