More of the music of Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Even worse, they made the mistake of releasing it!
Bernstein’s performance here is far too slow to be taken seriously. This is a record you can find in the bins for five bucks, and for five bucks it’s worth picking up just to hear how awful it is.
Our favorite Scheherazade has long been the one Ansermet conducted for Decca in 1961.
Outstanding Hot Stamper pressings of recordings from 1959, a great year for records, can be found here.
The complete list of titles from 1959 that we’ve reviewed to date can be found here.
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To see the records with bad sound or bad music we’ve reviewed, click here.
There are quite a number of classical recordings we’ve run into over the years that we felt fell short of the mark. Here they are, broken down by label.
- London/Decca records with weak sound or performances
- Mercury records with weak sound or performances
- RCA records with weak sound or performances
Mostly we write about good sounding records, and there are thousands that can be found here.
It’s yet another public service from Better Records, the home of the best sounding records ever pressed. Our records sound better than any others you’ve ever heard or you get your money back.
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