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Three other great recordings

Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

If you can’t live with imperfections, choose the masterly performance of Herbert Blomstedt and the San Francisco Symphony, recorded in 1989. It’s never seat-of-the-pants exciting like Schmidt, but there are heady moments, such

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