Brahms: Symphony No. 3
A good Brahms Third from a conductor who was not as great a Brahms conductor as he thought he was, three complete symphony cycles for DG notwithstanding. Unfortunately, you can also get Claudio Abbado's newer, better sounding, better conducted version of the same symphony on the same label at the same price. So unless you're a Herbert von Karajan completist, there's no particular reason that you need to have this recording, though it's no disgrace if you do.--David Hurwitz