Robert Golovniov asks:

> I'm trying to determine which Beethoven Symphonies recordings I would
> like to have in my collection... but would like to ask the list
> whether there are other good reviews available that I should take as a
> guide.

One good repository of reviews is Gramophone magazine's Gramofile archive:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/gramofile

For heaven's sake don't pay any attention to the review of Pletnev's
Beethoven on the site you mention in your original email.  Just to
establish my bonafides, I find both Mengelberg and Furtwangler fascinating
in Beethoven, but Pletnev's distortions are beyond the pale.  Caveat
emptor!

David Simmons
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