Ralf Oehlmann ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >I also like Solti, but was always confused about my version. Mine comes >from the Solti Edition. The cover claims DDD (published in 1984 like his >famous full price version with that nice landscape cover). As the booklet >claims it was recorded in 1979 in Vienna, it cannot be a digital >recording. Decca made their first digital recordings in 1979 I believe. The first digital recordings commerically issued were IIRC made by Denon in 1973. >Where is the mistake? Is this version identical with his 1984 performance >or did Solti recorded it twice? Well, he could easily have recorded it twice, of course. The first digital New World I remember is the Kondrashin - also on Decca, also c1979/80. Also VPO I think. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]