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Title: You might as well get all nine!
Review: If all you want is Beethoven's Ninth, it's really worth springing for one of the great recordings, many of which are not expensive. However, if you have no Beethoven symphonies in your collection & are ambitious about soaking up all nine of them, Laserlight has two complete sets, both good, both very inexpensive through Amazon. One set is conducted by Ferencsik - which includes this Choral 9th. The other is a more idiosyncratic set by the East German, Herbert Kegel (who committed suicide when the Berlin Wall fell). I have the Ferencsik set, which occasionally shows up used on Amazon at a ridiculously low price.
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