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Re: Classic CD's 100 Greatest Conductors
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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:27:05 -0700
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Bob Draper ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>The sound quality of these 1950's recordings is another matter.  If you
>listen to a Frank Sinatra recording (remastered on CD) from the early
>'50s you find superb quality with zero distortion and no tape hiss.
>
>When you listen to a classical recording the sound is usually dire.
>(There are odd exceptions like Britten's own recording of Noye's Flude.)

And most things recorded by Mercury or the RCA Living Presence or Woldike's
Haydn set on Vanguard or Boult's Everst Mahler 1 or Krips' otherwise dull
Beethoven cycle or.....

Deryk Barker
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