It’s March 7, so here are my favorite 7ths. Rather than blab for twenty paragraphs, I’ll let these things speak for themselves. I like how Szell takes the catchy second movement fast, closer to a true allegretto than the others. Some other recordings do that, but I don’t remember hearing one that didn’t have some disqualifying issue for me.
Also, a special shout out to Sir Thomas Beecham with the Royal Philharmonic. I like it as much as the ones above but figured I should stop at three.