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Many years ago we wrote:
Very good sound for the Coppelia Ballet Highlights from the Master Ballet Conductor, with only a few slightly bright passages marring an otherwise wonderful recording.
UPDATE 2020
I doubt we would have any trouble with the bright passages these days. Better cleaning and better playback would have solved that problem, probably. Of course, this copy is long gone, so no one can ever really know if it was bright or not. I’m guessing, not.
Ernst Ansermet conducted some of the best sounding records ever made — here are some of the ones we’ve reviewed.