Better than I expected
I recently purchased the Sony box with the complete symphonies with Bernstein at the helm. I had been expecting this performance of the 5th to be a disaster, but I have been pleasently surprised by it. As an interpretation, it is marvelous, and I wonder if the recorded sound quality is the real culprit in the generally negative reviews this performance has received. Granted, neither the playing nor the sound engineering is particularly good, but one may enhance the sound quality to an acceptable level by creatively manipulating a graphic equalizer. Fortunately, the other recordings in the complete set sound much better. I probably wouldn't buy this as an individual disk, but would certainly recommend listening to it as part of the Sony box set.