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Beethoven: The Complete Symphony Collection

London Symphony Orchestra & Josef Krips

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dude the 3rd and 4th movements are put together for a reson. that is how he wrote them, with no pause inbetween, If you are spiting up his symphonys you are losing the point of the work. the 5th is a story of beethoven over coming his destany and the life he was delt...ie... his hearing loss and sickness, the cencership from the austrian empire, the supresion of the lower class, and not to mention nipolean was taking over. do some reserch.

Mike’s Professional Ears Love It! FIVE STARS!

Here’s a professional recording engineer’s opinion: To all the so-called “critic-reviewers” and naysayers in the list of reviewers of this work, I say PHOOEY!! This is a sublime collection, comprehensive and impressive, and EXTREMELY well recorded and performed. Yes, the recording techniques of the late 60’s were different than they are today, but not necessarily worse, especially with classical music. I can hear accent mics on the tympani and string bass, each string section, the woodwinds and other select instruments, but as a whole, this recording is marvelous. The stereo soundstage is terrific. It’s an analogue recording for goodness sake. I’ve heard modern digital recordings that are not nearly as good! Those who have complained of distortion or other perceived anomalies should dump their cheap, god-awful-sounding Apple earbuds that come with your iPod and get headphones of PROFESSIONAL quality (I use Sony’s exquisite MDR7506 Professional Studio Headphones), capable of reproducing the power, intensity and amazingly subtle nuances of this truly remarkable recording. There is NO distortion, NO strange compression in the recordings, only the dreadful compression that is inherent of the MP3/M4A technology that iTunes uses to deliver the music to us. And, yes, I’ve listened to the entire collection 3 times in a row, finding them increasingly breathtaking. The original recording engineers are to be commended for their excellent work. Most of you newbie listeners have no idea how complex and difficult a serious classical recording is to make, but these guys pulled it off - magnificently.

If you are not using GOOD headphones to listen and prefer to listen to a room stereo, your audio playback system and the room in which it’s installed play an all-important role in the correct and accurate tonal and stereo soundstage of the music. It must be high quality, and calibrated and tuned to be accurate. You can’t just pop these recordings into a boom box and expect to hear everything these gems offer.

BRAVO! Kudos and congratulations to the fabulous London Philharmonic Orchestra and their amazing recording team for a brilliant, relevant and completely enjoyable collection. Bravo! Oh, and thanks to iTunes for making it available.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!! Also, be advised that these SAME recordings are available elsewhere in iTunes and 4 times the price!! Buy this collection and receive your money's worth!

wonderful economical set

I had these as LPs in the 1970s and liked them a lot. Great intro to the Beethoven Symphonies. Krips was an excellent conductor and underrated. The LSO is a fine orchestra. The performance of the Pastoral is particularly good. If you dont know the Beethoven Symphonies, this is a great place to start.

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