Haitink has re-recorded much of this music for Philips with the Boston Symphony. Don't buy those records. About a decade ago something happened to Bernard Haitink that turned him into the dullest major conductor still active. Before that, he presided over a series of recordings with the Concertgebouw Orchestra which stand among the finest musical documents ever made. Exactly what induced his current interpretive coma is anyone's guess, and we're very lucky that we have stunning recordings like these preserving his fruitful artistic partnership with this great orchestra. It's hard to imagine what Philips could have been thinking in releasing two full-priced CDs with less music, when at two discs for the price of one you can have these better conducted, better sounding performances. Go figure. "--David Hurwitz"