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Review: Be warned! These are NOT historical recordings (i.e. 78-rpm records which have been remastered) these are new recordings of old piano roles.There has been a vogue of piano roll reissues lately. If done right, the results can be quite impressive--as in Telarc's Window in Time series. That is not the case here. The Prokofiev rolls--as transferred here--are totally lacking in expression and dynamic range. The REAL recordings of Prokofiev that I have heard--such as his marvelous recording of his own Third Concerto--reveal a far more fascinating pianist. Prokofiev was no colorist--ala Debussy, Gieseking, or Horowitz--but he certainly was no typewriter either.Recommended for piano roll enthusiasts, as a demonstration of how it should NOT be done.
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