Felix Delbruck writes: >... I'm more averse than some to reverberent recordings - the acoustic >spoiled the Salomon Quartet's recordings for me, and I'm also having >problems with Brendel's Schubert sonata D. 959 recommended by Don Satz >for that reason. I have also found the recent Naxos release of Barber piano music to be seriously flawed by the recording quality of the piano, which sounds as if it was played in a huge hall a great distance away from the listener. The Beethoven sonatas on Vox, on the other hand, have the opposite problem: a persistent dryness of sound. I understand that Brendel complained that the engineers continually fussed with the controls during the recording to compress the dynamic range. - seb