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Title: BBC Radio 3, "Record Review" DLVDE (June 19, 2021)
Post by: David Boxwell on June 19, 2021, 02:06:08 PM

Flora Wilson assesses some recordings of Das Lied for "Building a Library" and selects her Top Pick from among: Walter 52; Jurowski 20; Maazel 90; Klemperer 65. Nagano, Vanska, Haitink 75, Gibson 74, and . . . Albrecht 12.

www.bbc.co.uk

Title: Re: BBC Radio 3, "Record Review" DLVDE (June 19, 2021)
Post by: barryguerrero on June 19, 2021, 06:08:27 PM

To each their own. I think she was picking by 'favorite mezzo' sort of criteria. I would pick Walter's N.Y. stereo "DLvdE" over his 1952 one on any day, regardless of mezzo.