Mitropoulos and Shostakovich

One of the more disgraceful episodes in musical history was the hounding, and subsequent severe downplaying (to put it mildly!) of the role of Dimitris Mitropoulos in the history of the New York Philarmonic because of his homosexuality. One of the positive aspects of the tranformation of views on this in the US (a new peak reached with yesterday being the first day gay marriage was legal in California) is the 'rehabilitation' of Mitropoulos and the issuing of a greatly increased number of his recordings. He is for me one of the greatest of conductors and one of the few artists of whom I would purchase almost anything they chose to perform.As I am currently on a Shostakovich binge can I recommend Mitropoulos's recording of Shostakovich's 5th symphony. Not currently listed on Amazon but it used to be available coupled with a very interesting performance of Shostakovich's 6th symphony conducted by Reiner on Sony. Worth picking up if you see it.