Beethoven Symphony No 5 & Mozart Symphony No 35 - Bruno Walter Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Best Beethoven's symphony 5 recorded

Sound quality is excellent for this recording. I waited for long time for this with HDTT DSD

Scruffy, slow

Scruffy describes the SQ - congested and rather scratchy upper strings in this Columbia recordings. And the readings are definitely offputting - big-band style and often painfully slow; where they should soar, they sag, and particularly in the final movements of both symphonies. Not one of Walter's best - sorry.

Beethoven Symphony No 5 & Mozart Symphony No 35 - Bruno Walter Columbia Symphony Orchestra

eXemplary performance of this way over played (albeit great) piece. but this takes it from ordinary to eXtraordinary.