Quote Originally Posted by pilamenon View Post
Oh dear, am I the only one who enjoyed that Classical? Absolutely gorgeous first movement, colours and scoring I'd never fully noticed before. Very playful scherzo, and helter-skelter scamper through the finale, superb ensemble, especially the winds! Idiosyncratic, but this piece can surely take it.
I agree with Eine Alpensinfonie. This is the sort of symphony that can take, yea...demands being played about with. I have Koussevitsky on 78s, Abbado and Dutoit on hilarious DVDs and more CDs than I dare mention (OK, it is often a fill-up) but it rarely fails.

The Fifth did not light my fire though. The muddy sound on HD could be at fault though. Come back Noddy and Jurowsky.