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Re: Most Overrated Composers
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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:38:13 -0700
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William Strother ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>But don't forget that Walter made beautiful STEREO recordings of the
>4th, 7th and 9th that are still available on CD.

We are talking about Bruckner now, arent' we?

>Each, for my money, is definitive in all respects.

Well, definitive is a tricky concept and a rara avis IMHO.  I certainly
wouldn't apply it to Walter's Bruckner, good though it is.  He wa never
an architectural conductor and Bruckner needs that.

Deryk Barker
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