Deryk Barker wrote:

>Withou a doubt the most intense version I've ever heard is the revcent BBC
>Legends release of the 1960 Leningrad PO/Mravinsky at the RFH, the Western
>premiere.

I was almost put off buying this after reading remarks about the audience
coughing too much.  Having bought it I can only assume the two reviewers
I read had a very low tolerance to audience behaviour.  The performance is
stunning.  It grips you by the throat and doesn't let you go until the end
and even then.....

Note the bonus CD of a Mozart Symphony from the same concert.

Tony Duggan
Staffordshire,
United Kingdom.