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John Smyth <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:02:23 -0800
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Richard writes:

>...but I was surprised to find a SACD containing Szell versions of
>Pictures, L'Arlesienne and Peer Gynt.  Presumably all contain the same
>1963 recording of Pictures, appropriately tweaked.  Does this mean the
>companies are expecting us to buy hideously expensive SACDs of all the
>stuff that's already been reissued on CD?  Here's one person who won't
>be!

OK, let me get this straight.:)

No performance after 1960 is ever good enough for you guys, yet when
a company tries to give you the best remasterings they can from those
wonderful days of yore, no one will pay 'cause it's too expensive.  My
goodness.

John Smyth
Sac, CA USA

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