Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 - Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker (2001)
Symphony No. 8 is as different musically from the Seventh Symphony as it is close in time since it was finished only five months later. It appears to be caught between the Dionysian scale of the Seventh Symphony and the titanic universality of the Ninth Symphony. The carefree nature of the "little s