Kar-Ming Chong wrote: >I think I prefer the broad and expansive accounts of Brahms' Symphonies >by Walter/CSO and, to a lesser extent, Szell/CO. Can anyone recommend >other versions of Brahms' symphonies that operate in the same mould? If you want broad and expansive consider Barbirolli/Vienna Philharmonic/EMI; Jochum/London Philharmonic/EMI (though you said you didn't like Jochum with the BPO, so maybe not--I don't know that BPO recording); maybe Sanderling/Dresden/Eurodisc; I would call Boult/EMI somewhat on the broad side, though maybe more autumnal than broad, I guess; one I've always wondered about might be a possibility if you can hear it first (I haven't, so I'm speculating)--Giulini/EMI. Certainly, there is the early Karajan DG set (not the later one). Also Bernstein/Vienna/DG: I'm not that fond of it because of its idiocyncracies (I liked the Fourth when I heard it being recording, but that's live). I don't know if I'd call it broad and expansive, but Solti/Chicago/London is a very good set. Roger Hecht