Title: Bait & Switch ?
Product review: It was always a surprise to pop this disc in the player, only to get a pedestrian tour of the dances, not the rousing performance I heard in Leipzig before Masur skipped town. Er, emigrated.Now that I have started loading discs onto my server for the iPods and entertainment centres, I have learned a possible reason why: the imprinted label on my disc may say Masur and the Gewandhaus, but the embedded titles say the album was recorded by Irwin Fischer with the Budapest Festival Orchestra in 1983.I don't want to denigrate Fischer or the Budapest, but their standards have not always been of the highest calibre. Some of their recordings are more suited to shopping centre audio systems than to good home entertainment systems and serious listening. And of course Philips is not at the top of the heap for accurate CD production.
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