1988 Philips Digital Concertgebouw Haitink Beethoven 6th Symphony Definitive NM
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1988 Philips Digital Concertgebouw Haitink Beethoven 6th Symphony. This is Definitive!. I must have heard over 30 accounts of this symphony in my life, I had a real Beethoven kick in my late 20s, and after that you never fall out of love with the great works. Honestly though, it would be no loss to throw away all your Karajan and Klemperer records of it after hearing this, maybe keep a historic instruments one for comparison, but this is the greatest account since Furtwangler & Kleiber senior, and is the best sounding one ever made. I knew Haitink was a major conductor, because the first violin of one orchestra, and a soloist I know both told me he was without peer in the 1980s. His presence was immense in rehearsal and the concert hall. Anyway, enough of my opinion, this is what Gramophone said on its release: "Technically, this is by some distance the most distinguished Beethoven cycle now before the public. Whatever minor quibbles I had about the ambient sound on last October's release, there is no doubting the general distinction of Philips's Concertgebouw recordings. They have all the necessary width and depth of field required by Beethoven's music, with a firm bass line, beautifully clear and properly perspectived timpani, brass playing that has plenty of power in reserve, and perfectly focused woodwinds and strings. The Concertgebouw Orchestra's wind section may be less distinctively itself than it once was but it retains an elegance and clarity of utterance that is very much to English taste. As for the string playing, the violins in particular, it matches that of the Berliners in surety and sheen but surpasses them here in acuteness of phrasing and crispness of rhythmic attack. (Haitink's Concertgebouw, with its drier tone, sounds more like Karajan's Philharmonia than Karajan's Berlin Philharmonic for DG. A buoyant and intensely agreeable reading of the Pastoral Symphony." Our ethos is to offer you best sounding analogue only pressings of vintage records. Here is another beauty of that type. We offer massive postage subsidies to overseas buyers on multiple purchases. i.e £1 extra per lp to a maximum of £15, then no extra charge. We pack carefully in custom made hard card boxes. If the appearance or playgrade suggests it requires it, our records are cleaned on a wash and vac machine, using art du son fluid in distilled water. This is already in a new heavy poly outer with antistatic inners added with outer sleeve and records all layered behind each other to prevent splits.
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