Critics choice

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ar least she doesn't say "like" in every sentence, but "kind-of" is rather similar...

[pastoralguy]

I agree with her on the academic festival overture, for me its as irratating as Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave and that Capriccio Italian. I have every piece of music Brahms wrote on CD but its the one piece i never go back to.

Both the Tchaikovsky pieces are super although I agree I wouldn't lose too much sleep if I didn't hear the AF overture again.

[Barbirollians]

I prescribe Bruno Walter conducting the Columbia SO for anyone who needs to be convinced by the Academic Festival overture.