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Title: None better
Review: I owned these recordings on the original Command Classics LPs and listened to them many times. When CDs came along, I wanted a newer, digital recording to replace my vinyl. However, none of the newer interpretations I listened to could match these by Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Steinberg's Second has the warm, burnished quality the music calls for, and the somewhat eccentric Third is given a lyrical, sympathetic reading. Even if you own another set of Brahms' symphonies (I do), you owe it to yourself to hear these recordings.
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