Since most interested the subject will be aware, I would like to highly praise only the recording quality of this CD. It's the sound engineers Excellent succeeded in transferring the orchestra and its surround sound loss on these stereo recording. All instruments are very precisely locatable - just as you would expect from a perfect recording. For the German Grammophon is already known. Recorded in 1981 on magnetic track tapes (4D), the recording was digitized virtually no loss, so that the three-dimensionality of the recording has been preserved. In particular, the owner good hi-fi systems can look forward to this recording, since they, even by today's standards, with incredible brilliance comes up and transforms the listening room into a concert hall. Not for nothing you can hear excerpts of this symphony frequently on hi-fairs. An improvement is likely to be achieved only with a DVD recording (with surround sound). Especially when recording of Mercury, the incredible dynamics of the shots is clear - everyone can find in this symphony his "favorite planet"; one can be sure one of the best shots of knowing in his possession when buying this issue.