Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>William Hong ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>
>>Somebody remind me.....how many times did Karajan do the LvB Nine?
>
>Five: 1947 VPO (EMI), 1950s Philharmonia cycle (EMI), 1961/2 BPO cycle
>(DG), 1977 BPO cycle (DG) and 1980s BPO cycle (DG).

One could also say: Six times: Newyear celebrations 1968 with the
Berliner Philarmoniker.  What I've got seems to be a private recording
though.  I am lucky to have a good set of such.  Many of those recordings
are very good (does a force do better when live and they belive they are
not recorded?), but in sometimes horrible sound, but I am not so sensitive
to clicks and noises.  The 9th in question is however not so good.

Mats Norrman
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