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Elgar: Cello Concerto - Yoohong Lee/Menuhin        (2 of 5 found this review helpful)
  August 28, 2006

This was recorded in 1995 in C.T.S. Studios in London. I was half expecting a 'small' sound here, but I was wrong, fortunately. This studio sounds about like EMI's big Abbey Road studio 1 (?)--quite nice! This recording is not quite as distant as some I've heard and is NOT 'swimmy'--the cello and ... more
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 - RPO/Shipway        (2 of 3 found this review helpful)
  August 28, 2006

I have NO idea who Frank Shipway is, but if I find any more RPOs by him, I'm buying. This is the overall-best M5 I've ever heard*. It's JUST right in tempos and phrasing, and the Adagietto, the MOST-IMPORTANT movement in the work for me, is played JUST rightly--slowly (but not disjointedly) and with ... more

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