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)
Complete Cycle: Herbert von Karajan -- Berlin -- 1963 / 1977 John Eliot Gardiner -- Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique Riccardo Chailly -- Gewandhausorchester
9th: Karl Bohm -- Wiener -- Norman, Domingo, Fassbaender, Berry George Szell -- Cleveland Orchestra -- Robert Shaw, Choir Director
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