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Peter Goldstein <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 26 Nov 2000 08:25:21 -0500
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Margaret Mikulska wrote of the Philips Complete Mozart Edition:

>...many boxes from the 1991 set (180 CDs) were quite a hoot, since the
>liner notes in each of four languages were often written by four or at
>least three different people, who often claimed contradictory things about
>the same pieces.  It was really great.

What was also great was reading the different translations of the original
German and Italian texts.  You learn a lot about idioms that way.

Peter Goldstein

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