content: This is a recording by a very great orchestra, conducted by a top-notch conductor, and featuring a very good recording. Why is it so reasonably priced? It is a live recording(complete with applause at the end) and has a couple of moments where the orchestra stumbles a little, one or two overly loud timpani strikes, and lots of plainly adible coughing from the audience. It really wouldn't have been fair to charge big dollars for it, I suppose, but I almost would have paid it. I have lots of 9ths and especially from the third movement on, this is right up there with the best of them. Very musical, wonderful singing, heartfelt and rich without being grandiose, the last movement gets 5 stars.