Beethoven returned to the symphonic form after a five year break in 1813
and the debut of his Seventh Symphony led to a public confirmation that
he was undoubtedly the greatest composer then living.
Carlos Kleiber's performance of the Seventh with the Vienna Philharmonic
is now thirty years old and remains unsurpassed. Almost, perhaps,
the definition of definitive.
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included in one of our boxed set recommendations
