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Brahms: Violin Concerto - Oistrakh, Szell        (10 of 10 found this review helpful)
  September 27, 2010

One of the great Brahms Violin Concerto recordings. Not from the stately Brahmsian school, but a real technical tour de force to challenge Heifetz and Reiner. The Esoteric transfer compares very favorably to the original British and German LPs; I don't have a CD version. Very decent sound, but not ... more
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - Klemperer        (14 of 14 found this review helpful)
  September 27, 2010

There has been a lot of recent discussion here on whether the Esoteric SACDs are worth the exalted price charged for them (something which only an individual purchaser can decide) and whether specific transfers are good (which shouldn't be as controversial as it appears to be). I have to confess ... more
Schoenberg, Berg, Webern - Karajan        (7 of 8 found this review helpful)
  June 8, 2010

I cannot help pointing out the injustice of the previous review, which simply misstates the facts as to what Esoteric says it did in remastering the original recordings. There is not a word in the disc's booklet to suggest that the transfer was anything other than from the original analogue ... more

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