Best Beethoven Symphonies? Karajan?

Furtwaengler, Toscanini, 63 and ONLY 63 Karajan, yes, Solti, Bruno Walter, especially the 6th, Abbado with the Berlin Philharmonics is a revelation musically, but the recording, DGG on DDD is pretty awful, his rendering however of practically all symphonies is so exceptional, that you soon forget about the bad sonics. Cheers,

Thanks Sugarbrie, must hunt this up. Am very familiar with Weller as a violinist, love especially his playing in Schubert's Quintet in C, didn't know he took to conducting later, like most of his breed. Cheers,

...and even if you were, Sugarbrie, the set is already on its way to me, (-: Cheers,