Brian Blackwell wrote:

>Giulini's VPO Eighth is my favourite symphonic recording.  It's very slow
>(at 87 minutes using the Nowak edition) but the tempo is sustained with an
>almost religious conviction.  His sense of large-scale phrasing is just
>glorious and the VPO play as if their very souls depended on it.  Terrific
>stuff.

I agree with Brian on this version which cost a fortune when I bought it
but has been reissued more affordably (?) It uses the 1890 Nowak which is
not the same as the 1887 Nowak in the Tintner recording on Naxos I
recommended.

Richard Pennycuick
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