Denis Fodor ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I have Karajan's 1962 recording of the Sixth as part of a (LP) set of the
>complete symphonies (with the BPO, naturally).  Not only can't I fault it,

Too fast, febrile and *OMITS THE REPEAT IN THE SCHERZO DAMMIT!*

>but I think it's one of the very best performances ever recorded by anyone
>(and I remember H.H. Stuckenschmidt, the leading German music critic of
>the time, praising it highly--in the Neue Zeitung, I believe).

However, the same HHS also called Karajan's 1982 Berlin Mahler 9 the
greatest live performance he'd ever heard of anything.

>The set also includes a Ninth not only featuring, but blessed by, the
>performances of Gundula Janowitz, Hilde Roessl-Majdan, Waldemar Kmentt,
>and Walter Berry.  What a recording!

Well the others don't turn my crank, but the divine Gundula is reason
enough to buy this 9th.

Deryk Barker
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