Because of Dave I recently acquired both of Krips' recordings of the 9th and am very happy I did. Sony, a complete Music from Marlboro box would be amazing. A feast.
Not one work to quibble over... every item praised worthy of the eulogy! Thank God, I succeeded in getting hold of the Quartetto Italiano-box, just before it disappeared. No such luck with the Beaux Arts-box...I hessitated for a moment, blinked, and lo and behold, gone it was! 😭😊
I liked your mention of Peter Pears. I wondered how you'd respond to his versions. They're the ones I imprinted on, so everything else falls short for me.
Well, I don't ask anyone else to care about it, but it's kind of important to me! Simply because it's my history and it happened. I remember a CD of Poulenc's Gloria that had a sort of 'woo' moment, as if the master tape had caught for a fraction of a second and then released and caught up: it's simply a fact that I expect to hear the same 'flutter' at the same point every time I hear it. It is what it is.
@dizwell Some old time collectors used to go to live concerts and experience a Pavlovian twitch at the places that were 78rpm record side breaks every 4 minutes. At least I knew a couple of old timers who told me this.
@bbailey7818 Indeed. Similar sort of story: Britten's _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ when copied to C90 tape wouldn't _quite_ fit, so I had to introduce my own break at the end of one side of the tape, resuming somewhat messily on the other. When it finally came to buying and listening to the CD, with its uninterrupted play-through, I was utterly flummoxed for a while: I was simply mentally prepared for, and expecting, a break where none now existed! Listening habits die as hard as any other, I fear 😅
