Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 3 in C, op. 52, I: Allegro moderato, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, cond.

W.A. Mozart, Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183, I: Allegro con brio, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, dir.

Happy birthday Wolfie, you don’t look a day over 35.

Antonin Dvorak, Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70, III: Scherzo–vivace, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pesek, cond.

Franz Schubert, Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D. 485, I: Allegro, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner, cond.

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 in A, op. 92, II: Allegretto, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber, cond.

In this recording, the string parts are played pizzicato all the way to the end of the movement instead of returning to arco for its last few bars as indicated by the score. Compare this to a performance that follows the score’s instructions.

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 in A, op. 92, II: Allegretto, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn, cond.

W.A. Mozart, Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201, I: Allegro moderato, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman, dir.

Carl Friedrich Abel, Symphony No. 1 in G Major, op. 7, Cantilena, Adrian Shepherd, dir.

Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14, IV: March to the Scaffold, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, cond.

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67, I: Allegro con brio, Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, cond.

This is taken from the CD-ROM accompanying the 1992 republishing of Murmurs of Earth, which should mean it’s the recording that went onto the Voyager spacecrafts’ golden records. However, NASA’s mission site shows the length of that recording as 7:20 while this track clocks in at 8:51, so I don’t know where that discrepancy comes from.