…archive gold from the summer of 1979, a live performance recorded in the basilica of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren in Bavaria just two weeks after the Cologne studio recording. The reading is the same, the orchestra different. (Player for player, the Stuttgart RSO is marginally better... The recording is astonishing. The basilica has a reverberation period double that of a standard concert hall. The South German Radio engineer incorporates this into the sound-picture yet produces a three-dimensional image that is focused, clean and clear. Compare the end of this first movement with that of the 1998 Berlin recording and there can be no doubting the greater force and clarity of the younger conductor and the more venerable acoustic.