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Title: Sofia Recital is wonderful yet there are problems with the CD
Review: I was introduced to the orchestral presentation (by Reiner and the CSO) of Pictures at an Exhibition while in high school in the late 1960s---one of my favorite compositions---and didn't know that Mussorgsky wrote it for solo piano until much later. Finally having heard of Richter's version, I made the purchase. It, too, is wonderful. The recording does have its issues: background white noise, audience noise, etc.. But those are minor, expected (for the timeframe), annoyances. A major annoyance, however, is the quality of the CD. The first two copies I received from Amazon were unplayable. A third copy was slightly better; I was able, with some difficulty, to transfer its contents to a good, blank, CD using my PC. Try that if you experience the same.
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