Title: Great performance, but there's a better transfer
Product review: This is not the best transfer of this magnificent old Cetra recording, which stems from a live 1951 broadcast. The Italian record companies had discovered the so-called "Cedar" process in the 1990's, and they tended to over filter all of the live recordings and reissues of analog recordings they put out to deadening effect. Fortunately, Warner Fonit reissued this recording in a far superior transfer circa 2002 when they inherited the Cetra catalogue. Do an Amazon search and enter either of these so-called ASIN numbers, and you will find one of the incarnations of the Warner Fonit transfer:B003IO5IFMB000063UMMBear in mind that even Warner Fonit can only do so much with the Cetra's boxy 1951 mono sound, but they make it far more listenable than Cetra did.
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