Favorite Beethoven Symphony Recordings


OK, it’s one of Ludwigs anniversary years.  There must be over 200 complete Symphony Cycles, with seemingly dozens this year alone.  While most Classical listeners are bound to have several, we can’t possibly know them all.  Make a list of favorites of each work, try not to repeat a Conductor if possible.
1-Hogwood/AAM
2) Krips/LSO
3) Furtwangler/Vienna PO (1944)
4) Szell/Cleveland
5) Kleiber/VPO
6) Walter/Columbia SO
7) Solti/Chicago (1970s cycle)
8) Gardiner-Revolutionary Romantic etc. Orchestra 
9) Von Karajan/ Berlin PO (sixties)

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Carlos Kleiber 5 & 7
Furtwangler 9th Beyruth  Festival  (?1943)

Karajan 1963 full cycle 
Here is link to  Mengelberg complete symphonies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCAsQBSXIII

Youtube so limited sound, still a conductor I was not familiar with.