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I think his tempi were far better judged than most of what I have heard of Heifetz...

And I also thought that his tone was sweeter.

Now, I never heard Heifetz live, and a musician whose ears I trust told me that there were very few Heifetz recordings that sounded like the real Heifetz live.

So, I can only guess that there might have been some over-the-top spot mic'ing on the famous RCA recordings. Because the RCA orchestral recordings of the BSO from the 1950s do not sound over-cooked in the treble.

There's a British Glazunov Concerto recording I called attention to on my blog, which is night-and-day from his RCA stuff, both in tone and in tempo.

After considering Milstein and Menuhin, where I came out on Maestro Khachatryan was, "A more energized Oistrakh."

jm


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