La Folia Online Music Review La Folia Home] [Archives by Contributor] [Archives by Date] ... Page] Dan Davis [May 2003.] full-priced boxes; discs 9-13 are new issues freshly transferred by Maggi Payne, one of the best restoration engineers extant. Idomeneo Well-Tempered Clavier by Mieczslaw Horszowski, and continues with a buoyant Beethoven violin / piano sonata from 1953 with the stimulating combination of the elegant Arthur Grumiaux and the fiery young American pianist, William Kapell. The pair strike sparks here; Kapell dazzling at the keyboard, Grumiaux more spirited than in his later studio recording for Philips DG Original Masters DG Decca and Westminster Decca Original Masters series is a six-disc set, Pathetique symphony, in which case you should know that the 1951 live performance from Cairo in this set is remarkably close to it in overall conception and in most details. On the other hand, you may be turned off by the presence of the Franck Symphony here, since his studio version for Decca DG , a two-disc set of Symphonies 1, 3, and 9. The First comes from a 1954 Vienna Philharmonic concert just two days after their studio recording sessions for | |
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