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Philip Peters <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 5 Feb 1999 02:49:41 +0100
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Joseph Previte wrote:

>I saw a set of Furtwangler's complete Beethoven symphonies on Music and
>Arts and was contemplating purchasing.  Any advice from list members?

I don't know which set this is and F.  recorded the whole cycle with the
Berliner Ph.  as well as with the Wiener Ph.  if memory serves, but my
advice would be: buy regardless.  F.  was such a great director and his
Beethoven is almost as good as his unsurpassed Brahms.

Philip Peters

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