Recording quality: The recording is surprisingly airy and also extremely dynamic. It seems to me almost as if artificial Hall was admixed. Compared to other CDs of the 5th and 7th more emphasis is placed on highlighting individual melodies of instruments. For me striking were the instruments that I have never heard such a presence and allowed so completely new insights. The disadvantage of such production is the fact that the orchestra is pulled to pieces in my opinion and the attention is always on individual events and not on the whole. The age of the 75 / 76er original recording shows. The tones are not particularly rich and subtleties missing.
Interpretation: The overall faster and "zackigere" character of interpretation fits very well to the 5th, I think. In the 7th, my favorite symphony, I do not like that. Zinman with the Tonhalle in Zurich succeeded in a gorgeous flowing performance. When Kleiber it is driven me too excited forward. Can one as consistently "beethovig" View ragged, but I find that the 7th done differently. The other extreme would be the Thielemann recording that falls asleep standing up.
