Walter Meyer wrote:
>There may still be a few readers on this list who haven't heard
>the comment that the stereo effect in this early recording [1957
>Karajan/Schwarzkopf, etc] was so exaggerated that the Marschalin and
>Octavio, in the opening scene must have been on a forty-foot bed.
Which is why the re-transfer was released [as approved by Mme.
Schwarzkopf] in mono, preserving the Walter Legge balances.
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Bill Karzas [log in to unmask]