Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Half of this box contains Mozart--mostly symphonies and the three Da Ponte operas--and the results range from insightful to strange. Harnoncourt is better in Haydn, Schubert, Bruckner, Brahms, and above all, Dvořák, but so much of this stuff has already been boxed and issued previously that I can only recomment this box if you have none of the contents in earlier releases.
Half of this box contains Mozart--mostly symphonies and the three Da Ponte operas--and the results range from insightful to strange. Harnoncourt is better in Haydn, Schubert, Bruckner, Brahms, and above all, Dvořák, but so much of this stuff has already been boxed and issued previously that I can only recomment this box if you have none of the contents in earlier releases.

![Ask Dave: Why is it a bad thing to hear the clarinets at the start of Beethovens Fifth?
A classical newbie asks: I am a newbie to classical music, so [this] might be a silly question: but why being able to hear the clarinets which are written into the piece is a bad thing? Ask Dave: Why is it a bad thing to hear the clarinets at the start of Beethovens Fifth?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kMqtdXsM6MI/mqdefault.jpg)








