Beethoven Symphonies (Rattle/Berlin Phil) - technically immaculate but curiously incoherent

Dasch/Vogel/Elsner/Ivashchenko/Berlin Radio Choir/Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle
(Berlin Philharmonic)Simon Rattle’s first set of the Beethoven symphonies appeared from EMI (now Warner Classics) in 2003. Recorded with the Vienna Philharmonic and using Jonathan Del Mar’s then newly completed edition of the scores, it was a much-hyped release, which never quite lived up to all the fuss around it. The latest version, based on a cycle that Rattle conducted in the Berlin Philharmonie conc