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Although I run hot and cold on Kertesz. . .

Posted by Chris from Lafayette on January 7, 2017 at 14:41:02:
. . . I am indeed tempted by that set. I guess the only thing I'm hesitant about is whether they might issue the blu-ray audio by itself (as they did with the Solti Ring).

My problem with this Dvorak set is that it's slightly anonymous sounding to me, compared to any number of Czech-conducted sets (Neumann, Pesek, Macal), or, for that matter, the earlier Rowicki set on Philips. I remember the British (and some US) critics at the time these Kertesz performances were first released claiming that these performances had an aura of "the thrill of discovery". But I feel it's possible that these same critics were projecting their own "thrill of discovery" (i.e., of the music itself) onto the Kertesz recordings, which, as I said, to me sound slightly anonymous. The story was that Kertesz didn't spend much time studying the scores at the time he made these recordings, and, on at least a couple of occasions, was reported to have learned the scores on an airplane as he was flying in for the recording sessions. Maybe I've been influenced by such reports, because that's exactly the way these recordings sound to me. Nevertheless, they're engineered pretty well, and I DO have a moderate interest in this new re-mastering.