@moryoga
You didn’t say if you were looking for CD’s or downloads, but every Beethoven collector should have Carlos Kleiber’s version of Symphony no. 5. It is magnificent, one of the greatest 5th’s ever recorded. Also contains a very good Symphony no. 7.
Recorded in 1975 on analogue tape by DG, it doesn’t suffer from the over-miking that became the standard for recording an orchestra. It also has plenty of concert hall ambience; it’s a real "you are there" performance.
Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic Redbook...
https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Symphonies-Nos-5-7/dp/B000001GPX
There is also a new SACD version, which is said to be remastered.
You didn’t say if you were looking for CD’s or downloads, but every Beethoven collector should have Carlos Kleiber’s version of Symphony no. 5. It is magnificent, one of the greatest 5th’s ever recorded. Also contains a very good Symphony no. 7.
Recorded in 1975 on analogue tape by DG, it doesn’t suffer from the over-miking that became the standard for recording an orchestra. It also has plenty of concert hall ambience; it’s a real "you are there" performance.
Carlos Kleiber/Vienna Philharmonic Redbook...
https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Symphonies-Nos-5-7/dp/B000001GPX
There is also a new SACD version, which is said to be remastered.