Title: Brilliant Budget Buy
Product review: Don't you just love it when classic recordings get reissued on CD at a budget price?! Such is the case with this title in the new "Universal Classics" series featuring Berg and Schoenberg Concertos, originally made in the early 1970s for Deutsche Grammophon. I fell in love with conductor Rafael Kubelik years ago after being introduced to his recordings of Dvorak, and he produces the same glowing results here. Of course performing with first rate soloists and orchestras is also key -- Szeryng and the Berlin Philharmonic on the Berg VC, Brendel and the Bavarian RSO on the Schoenberg PC, and Zeitlin and the Berliners once more on the Schoenberg VC. With budget lines being aimed at classical beginners, I'm not sure how many of them will opt to buy these 20th Century masterpieces, often wrongly maligned as dissonant and unlistenable. But I'll just be happy with the fact that three great recordings have resurfaced at an inexpensive price.
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