What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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[Peter Friedman]

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[Peter Friedman]

Bruch - String Quintet   -   Anton Rubinstein - Piano Concerto No.1

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Superb reading .... btw was recurringly championing a Box set compiling all Semyon Bychkov recordings for Philips ....

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[mikeweil]

[Peter Friedman]

[T.D.]

discs 3-5.

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Edited January 23, 2019 by soulpope

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[Peter Friedman]

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Benchmark recording ....

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[Larry Kart]

Takacs Quartet, Beethoven Op. 127. Listening to the first  movement, which begins in a stentorian manner and than alternates between that manner and relatively softer episodes, I find it very difficult in the Takacs recording to make out much of what's going on, even at times the actual pitches, in some of the softer passages, especially after the 4:00 minute mark. It's certainly not my playback system or my hearing, because those same passages are quite clear on at least two other Op. 127 recordings, the Guarneri (RCA) and the Yale (Vanguard). Has anyone else encountered this problem with the Takacs set? 

My assumption is that the Takacs (and/or Decca's recording engineer) just got too coy for their/his own good here. If so, that would be a shame, because otherwise the performance sounds like it might be quite a good one. I recall that the original Takacs Beethoven set was issued later on in remastered form. Did the remastered version solve the problem I've mentioned? 

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thereof CD 2 Mahler 5 (Klaus Tennstedt, December 9th, 1990 ....