This is what you think "80s metal" sounds like if your frame of reference is that Disturbed album you were still listening to last week. 3/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX--Q49ChZQ
5/10 Ok, not my thing
6/10. Not a particularly good recording. Way too muddy and staticky.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sJxnUR8b0Q[/youtube]
It's of outstanding quality for a liver recording made in 1942. It's a little unfair to knock it for not being up to the standards of 21st century recording technology. Instrumental clarity is more than adequate, and the ensemble sound is great. Besides, the interpretation is so vastly superior to all the syrupy, schmaltzy, slow as molasses versions of Beethoven favored by contemporary conductors that any defect of the recording process is rendered almost meaningless.