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Re: Korngold's Symphony
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Roger Hecht <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:40:17 -0400
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Steven Schwartz wrote:

>Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
>Philadelphia Orchestra/Franz Welser-Moest
>EMI 56169-2
>
>Munich Philharmonic Orchestra/Rudolf Kempe
>Varese Sarabande VSD-5346
>
>I can't choose between these two discs, as far as the accounts of the
>Symphony go.  ...

I would add Edward Downes (Chandos) to these two.  An excellent, clean,
singing performance, not as Germanic as Kempe or as heavy as Welser-Most.

Roger Hecht

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