Jim Saunders wrote on Beethoven's Fifth:
>What about recent (past 20 years) recordings with top-notch recorded
>sound? I have Harnoncourt and Kleiber. ... I wish for a performance in
>which the music is allowed to breathe rather than being driven along like
>a herd of camels loping across arid stones. And I like to be able to hear
>all the inner intracacies of the orchestration.
Consider Wyn Morris with the LSO on IMP (PCD 869). I think he would fill
your criteria and the sound engineer is Trygg Tryggvason whose work has
been praised here.
Tony Duggan, England.
My developing Mahler recordings survey:
http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/