Schubert: Symphonies 8 'Unfinished' & 9 'Great'
The Staatskapelle Dresden is Germany's finest orchestra--always has been--and they play this music with consummate authority. In fact, this is rather more their show than it is Giuseppe Sinopoli's and while nothing ever goes wrong with these perfectly sensible readings, you can hear this orchestra to even better effect with Sawallisch on Philips, or Blomstedt on Berlin Classics, all for much less money. Need I say more?--David Hurwitz