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 [log in to unmask]