Tony Duggan ([log in to unmask]) wrote of Haitink's Bruckner:
>His 1950s recoording for EMI is much better, less self-conscious and
>less concerned with the usual Karajan refinement of sound.
And his 1944 Berlin Staatskapelle is even better, with the finale in
stereo.
>I still have not heard one to compare with Horenstein, soon to be
>officially issued on BBC Legends.
I'd not rank it above Furtwaengler, but I kknow what you mean. (And,
having been in the audience.....)
Deryk Barker
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