Amazon sent me a recommendation a few weeks ago: a 38 disk box set of Karajan conducted symphonies for around $70. I like HvK's Beethoven and Bruckner sets, and didn't have either on CD (I still listen on vinyl), so the Amazon recommendation seemed like a good deal, because it also included Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Haydn.
HvK's Mozart has never worked for me, so when I stuck a Haydn CD (Symphonies 103 and 104) in my car's player last night, I wasn't expecting much. But on first listen, at least, it was quite wonderful: the playing was at once lithe and powerful. It appears that the dead Nazi could really do Haydn.
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