Could you give an example or two of music actually composed by Haas, not just retrieved by him from the unrevised first version? I'd be very interested to know. IMHO, there has not been a IV yet made to top Bruno Walter's excellently paced and recorded version.

You said you have Karajan, and both his EMI/BPO and DG/VPO recordings are among the best. You may also want to try Matacic/Czech Philharmonic for a more aggressive approach. One that some people like a lot, and I like it, although not quite as much as the above, that has similar tempos to those, but which will be much easier for you to find on CD is the Thielemann/Munich Philharmonic recording on DG. Sinopoli/Dresden on DG is another good one. For a faster, more aggressive approach, there is Welser-Most/London Philharmonic on EMI. The nullte is an attractive work of some substance, the slow movement particularly fine. Tintener on Naxos is once again a clear recommendation as it comes coupled with a difficult- to- acquire first recording of the eighth. Chaiily with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the more pacy Haitink on Philips are also recommended though, to my knowledge both of these are only available as part of box-sets.

Symphony No 5

Marek Janowski with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Pentatone Classics SACD PTC 5186 448, 2012 Alexander Rahbari, Brussels Radio orchestra, (obscure Belgian label whose name I can't recall offhand). Also excellent and cheap. Early in October, conductor Georg Tintner died from injuries sustained in a fall from the eleventh story of his Nova Scotia home. Although this information has not been confirmed by Naxos, Tintner, 82 at the time, reportedly had been suffering from terminal cancer, and jumped from the balcony of his home rather than suffer the pain and disorientation associated with his disease and its treatment.

Cristian Mandeal conducting the Cluj-Napoca Philharmonic Orchestra - Electrecord LP ST-ECE 02731/32/33, 1984 The violin solo ... in duple quarters and duple eighths, ... together with the rhythmic complexities already caused by the shift from sextuplets to quintuplets in the first violins, ... must have created an amazingly detailed sound – not to say an impenetrable musical fog." [7] In the coda, the solo horn, which was considered unplayable by the horn-player, was replaced by the first clarinet and the viola section.I could go on and on, but you have by now figured out that this is another Naxos masterpiece. Once more we are indebted to Klaus Heymann for providing us with a masterly recording. At the price, it would be sin to not buy to this disc. This, the first published edition of the symphony, was prepared by Cyrill Hynais and was until recently thought to be inauthentic, but Carragan has shown that it corresponds closely to the 1877 version. This first edition was performed on 25 November 1894 by the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Richter. He spent a year with the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra (1966–67) and three years with Sadler's Wells Opera (1967–70) before returning to Australia as music director of the West Australian Opera. In 1974, he rejoined the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera, by then known as the Australian Opera. He became music director of the Queensland Theatre Orchestra in 1976. Hermann Scherchen conducting the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, 1965, Disco Archivia CD - with a large cut (bars 388-512) in the Finale