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Title: To be avoided
Review: The transfers are generally total failures. These are mainly postwar commercial recordings with, originally, good sound for the period - the Bruckner Symphony No 7 is an acetate from Italian radio, and the second best of the three surviving Furtwangler performances, but all of them have been processed to the point where the noise reduction removes minute portions of the music itself, and the sound is surrounded by a metallic haze. The Mozart wind serenade distorts least, but even that isn't more than barely tolerable. The gaps between tracks are no more than 2 seconds long - with no concessions between different complete works. Most of this material is or has been available in decent transfers at reasonable prices. I can think of no reason whatever for buying this Volume 3. Volumes 1 and 2 have not been subjected to this over-reprocessing and though they would win no prizes are reasonable value at their prices. The one star is generated by Amazon, not this reviewer.
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