Bruno Walter/CSO - Beethoven: Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68 "Pastorale"
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1958 | Genre: Classical | Label: Columbia | MS-6012 | US pressing

This is an energetic and well played performance and Mark Obert-Thorn has done marvellously well with the transfer. I love the “Pastoral” of all symphonies and to be able to hear this recording from seventy years ago in very tolerable sound is wonderful. I must say that for the general listener the recording from 1960 on Sony is in better sound and indeed a better performance. The Columbia Symphony Orchestra was in fact the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. There is another recording from 1946 from Philadelphia but I haven’t heard it in a decent transfer.

(David R Dunsmore)