Felix Delbruck writes:

>... I'm more averse than some to reverberent recordings - the acoustic
>spoiled the Salomon Quartet's recordings for me, and I'm also having
>problems with Brendel's Schubert sonata D. 959 recommended by Don Satz
>for that reason.

I have also found the recent Naxos release of Barber piano music to be
seriously flawed by the recording quality of the piano, which sounds
as if it was played in a huge hall a great distance away from the listener.

The Beethoven sonatas on Vox, on the other hand, have the opposite problem:
a persistent dryness of sound.  I understand that Brendel complained that
the engineers continually fussed with the controls during the recording
to compress the dynamic range.

 - seb