[Dr Johnson]

This version of Mahler's 2nd was my introduction to that work and remains my favourite:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=2137451

Then there's his Brahms:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=826366

And last, but not least, Bruckner 4 & 6.

 

[Dr Johnson]

I'm just wondering what people's views are of the Andrew Rose Pristine Audio XR remasterings of the Klemperer Beethoven cycle. I hear a big difference. Your thoughts?

I haven't heard the Klemperer Pristine Audio remasters but I've got the 1938 Bruno Walter Mahler 9th. It does indeed sound very different from the (in my case) Naxos CD.

But I do find myself wondering what am I listening to? Is it real or is it a clever trick? In a way it shouldn't matter but it does somehow.