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From: wws@whuxlm.UUCP (Stoll W William)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Philadelphia Orchestra recordings
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Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 18:01:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 18:01:39 1985
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I heard recently (on National Public Radio) that Philadelphia
Orchestra recordings were generally the best around for that
genre.  I don't have the most extensive library in the world
(maybe 30-40 albums), but I had always thought that getting a
good recording was a combination of luck and looking for
"famous" orchestras (e.g., New York, Cleveland, London).
When I realized that my very favorite record is Philadelphia
performing Stravinski's "Firebird" and Mussourgsky's (sp?)
"Pictures at an Exhibition", I decided that from now on I will
try to only buy albums by Philadelphia.

I was wondering if any netters had opinions on this, or
if they could correct my generalization to "Philadelphia
recordings made between 1960 and 1980 are good, but the
others are so-so", or somesuch.

Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws