Masterful!

The opening bars of Beethoven's 5th Symphony to pause knows almost every child - a Beethoven cliché. But in this Opus puts much more. Powerful, lively, spirited - a great moment of music.
Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic offer an excellent interpretation of this work - quickly, partially blurred (legato style), but with a tremendous amount of momentum and force. For my taste, one of the best versions of the 5th, although Kleiber's version is also certainly not to be despised.

Regarding the "Pastorale", so it is in my view another increase - a touch of program music, but not only the musical tracing a water glass as later composers have done so, but a separate piece of music and indeed one of the best ever - in any case for my taste. Herbert von Karajan interprets them - as in the late recordings usual - with very tempos research, resulting in the 3rd and 4th sentence to a dreamlike rendition. In particular, the sentence I find almost a little too fast in this recording - here would be less been back. Nevertheless, an excellent recording of the "Pastorale" and so far I have found no better - whether Kleiber, Abbado, Bernstein, Norrington, Sawallisch or Zinman.

So a great CD.