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John Kregarman:
>Peter Ramson recommended the "History" set.
Did he? I thought so at first, but concluded that he hadn't.
>I went to the web site, and low and behold, this looks like the CD's
>Berkshire offers on what they list as the TIM label! I just picked up
>10 CD's featuring Mitropoulos (how could one go wrong for under
>$20?)
Easily: if poor quality makes them not worth hearing a second time. Or,
worse, what if one can't run through all 10 CDs even once?
>I would expect the Schnabels sound to be OK too, and, again, at $1.99 a
>disk.
My equipment's pretty basic, but I don't mind spending double, triple
in some cases, for CDs in better than okay sound. I'm not just being
argumentative: the great works on a couple of my CDs simply fail to
redeem the godawful sound of their recordings or transfers.
So I remain curious: aside from listening on RealPlayer -- as Peter
Ramson had, before he "...wonder[ed] which recording is preferable." --
would anyone who's heard both the Naxos and Historical sets of Schnabel
doing Beethoven's sonatas care to comment?
Bert Bailey
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