YOU CAN TRUST THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC TO GET BEETHOVEN 6TH SYMPHONY RIGHT (BUT NOT SURE THEY'D GET SHOSTAKOVICH 7TH RIGHT)

IMMHO Beethoven's 6th Symphony is the pinnacle of music.

But then I learned of Shostakovich: persecuted by Stalin before WW2; then fought the Nazis as a fireman in the Nazi Siege of Leningrad; then persecuted by Stalin again.

Then Stalin died and Shostakovich wrote his magnificent 10th symphony.

Anyhoo, here is a brilliant performance of Beethoven 6th symphony, by The Vienna Philharmonic.

Shostakovich 7th symphony portrayed the Nazis in Operation Barbarossa as a bunch of murdering clowns.

I haven't heard the Vienna Philharmnic play Shostakovich Symphony 10.

Just like I haven't heard the Ickes Icke-splain how they got 2020 so tragically wrong.