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In Reply to: RE: Good to know it sounds awesome, but when the original recording was of higher quality, why posted by ahendler on December 18, 2016 at 20:00:57:
I enjoy some of those older performances too, and, perhaps in a certain way, they indeed have never been surpassed. But personally, I find that almost all of the performances from the 78 rpm era have at least been equalled by performances recorded in better sound. Sure, no one is going to approach the Tchaikovsky Concerto in quite the same way as Horowitz/Toscanini, but that doesn't automatically make Horowitz/Toscanini the best of all time. In fact, IMHO, the recording by Argerich and Kondrashin beats Horowitz and Toscanini at their own game! And if that Argerich recording is too much of a "wild ride" for some listeners, then the Janis/Menges performance on Mercury is even closer (and, again IMHO, superior in some ways!) to the Horowitz/Toscanini, but in far better sound. Again, I don't want to take anything away from the uniqueness of the Horowitz/Toscanini recording, and it's well worth investigation by interested listeners - the Janis/Menges version is not QUITE the same (it could never be!), but its approach is so close and the execution is so well accomplished that I prefer it in view of the much better SQ. In general, I would never recommend these older 78 rpm derived recordings as first choices in any given repertoire, as interesting and insightful as they might be - there may be one or two exceptions, but I can't think of any right now.
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