Beethoven: Sym 4 & 5 Ripoff/Furtwangler

Jed Distler

Artistic Quality:

Sound Quality:

(Sung to the opening measures of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony):

“Avoid this disc! Don’t take the risk!

These two performances have been released before

In better sound on other labels that cost more

Here they sound worse, I have to carp,

What’s more, they’re both…pitched…SHARP!”

Enough said. You get the picture.

Reference Recording: No. 4 Böhm/Vienna (DG), No. 5: Kleiber (DG)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Op. 60; Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op. 67

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