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From: cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick "Coosh" Cuccia)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Beethoven's 9th recommendations
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Date: Sun, 21-Apr-85 01:46:14 EST
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> >> 
> >> I would dearly love a good recording of Beethoven's Choral 9th.
> >> 
> >> Brian Atkins   ...{attunix, hao, allegra, ucbvax}!nbires!atkins
> >> "But I'm not dead yet..."			- M.P.
> >
> >I am a fan of the last Karl Bohm/Vienna Philharmonic recording of this work, 
> >DG 2741 009.  In fact, this is the last recording Bohm made, period.  
> 
> You can get an excellent Boehm/Wiener Philharmoniker recording of the
> 9th as well as the other eight (!!!) from the International Preview
> Society for about $10 by joining as a new subscriber.  My favorite
> is still von Karajan/Berliner Philharmoniker DG 2563 027.
> 
> Enjoy!
> -- 
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> R J Morgan	uw-beaver!tikal!pyrcorp!rmorgan
> ----------------

I like the Wilhelm Furtwangler/Bayreuth Opera Festival Orchestra
recording from 1951.  In addition to being a very good recording
in the orchestral sense (the vocal soloists don't do a particularly
good, job, though), it is one of the the great Wagnerian conductor's
last recordings.  It is in re-release on Seraphim.

--Nick Cuccia
--{...}!ucbvax!cuccia

PS: My favorite is also the von Karajan above.  Also, I am currently
singing the piece with the UC Glee Club, University Chorus, and
University Symphony.  Anybody know some recordings that don't sound
like 'music-minus-one' recordings with the chorus tenor part missing
(high As forever...)?