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 [log in to unmask]