Robert Stumpf wrote:

>Roger Hecht said:
>
>>I managed to hear Szell and Cleveland only once, when they were on tour.
>>They sounded nothing like they do on those recordings. They were fabulous.
>
>They also sounded better on the EMI recordings he made.  I don't think he
>lived long enough to bother them.

And EMI just made better recordings, all told.  I thought they helped
Philhadelphia a lot, too, in terms of sound.  (RCA made a few good ones
with Philly, too, though Ormandy was drifting past it by then.)

Roger Hecht