Title: Always a pleasure
Review: Although there may be better individual performances, for a coherent view of Schubert's piano sonatas, Klien is hard to beat, even though I would love to have a pianoforte set of the sonatas by Andreas Staier or Ronald Brautigam. These recordings were made between 1971 and 1973 from the original analogue tapes, which might explain the one reviewer's complaint about the dryness of the sound but has nothing to do with fine performances.One needs to maintain a sense of perspective when listening to recorded music. As one who started in the late 40's listening to classical music on 78s and then moved on to LPs (and I have heard LPs that sounded worse than many 78s), CDs and now SACDs, one has to overlook the mechanical elements and get to the heart of the matter--the music and the artistry of the performer.
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