Kar-Ming Chong <[log in to unmask]> 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? Szell and even Walter broad and expansize? Maybe in these works or in relation to Jochum. Forgive me for agreeing with the Penguin but the Abbado/BPO recording is my first choice for nos. 1, 2 and 3. Conducting, sound and playing are very good and very appropriate, w/c means they're done in the broad and expansive mould as Brahms should be. On the fourth, I've read all the sh*t against Kleiber's and the other performances some of those critics trumpet but Kleiber is still the one. The Klemperer is grand but boring, the Furtwangler's are excellent but I have doubts on whether they're Brahms. Robert Palma <[log in to unmask]>