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Yes - I agree about the Mercury Kubelik recordings

It's funny about what Decca was doing in Chicago during the Solti era. I haven't heard the Brahms set you mention, but I used to have the Solti/CSO and Maazel/Cleveland recordings of La Mer (both recorded by Decca), and the Maazel recording seemed far more natural than the Solti (better performance too - at least IMHO!). Heck, I'd even claim that many (although certainly not all) of the Decca Mehta/LAPO recordings from that era were better engineered than those with Solti and the CSO. In addition, during this same era, EMI made a number of recordings with Giulini and the CSO, and IMHO they got a far more natural sound than Decca was getting at that time for Solti. (OTOH, the Giulini/CSO recordings on DG were to my ears comparable to the Deccas in the audibility of the multi-miking.)

I suppose a lot of this is just personal perception, but I do think that we agree that Solti suffered somewhat from the engineering he received, especially during his earlier years in Chicago.

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