Title: great performances spoiled?
Product review: Great performances spoiled? Well, we'll never know, because the sound quality is so poor (it's marginally better in some sonatas than in others). Grumiaux and Haskil are such superb and musicianly players that one has to give them the benefit of the doubt -- and we know of their quality from other recordings: Haskil's Mozart, Grumiax's Beethoven Concerto recordings. But in the Kreutzer, for example, you just can't hear the clear articulation of the piano's notes. The violin sound is a bit more to the fore, but it too seems "spread," so there is clearly a problem in the engineering somewhere. Put on Argerich and Kremer's Kreutzer, and you're hearing stuff you didn't know was there in the Grumiaux/Haskil recording. So I'm with Julian Cardona on this one -- and I'm not an audiophile either.
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