Sorry to say, but to this reviewer"s ears, Roger Norrington"s Beethoven recordings, one and all, are simply terrible performances. The orchestra plays with a scruffy, scrappy edge; trumpets and drums overwhelm the puny string section, and the recordings multi-mike each instrument to the point where it"s hard to tell Norrington"s conducting, such as it is, from the engineer"s sonic manipulations. Yuck. --David Hurwitz