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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WAGNER: PARSIFAL (London, 5 LPs); BEETHOVEN: NINTH SYMPHONY (London, 2 LPs). Two grand conducting achievements by the liege of the American orchestral scene, Sir Georg Solti...
BERLIOZ: LA DAMNATION DE FAUST (Philips, 3 LPs). Conductor Colin Davis' exemplary latest chapter in the resurrection of Hector Berlioz...
BRAHMS: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS, OP. 51, NOS. 1 AND 2, OP. 67 (RCA, 2 LPs). Another impressive disc debut, this one by the Cleveland Quartet...
PURCELL: THE FAIRY QUEEN (London, 2 LPs). One good English composer deserves another, or so it seems from this triumph by Benjamin Britten...
Dvorak: Nine Symphonies (Berlin Philharmonic, Rafael Kubelik conducting; Deutsche Grammophon; 9 LPs; $49.50). Those who like their Dvorak in plural doses, but with budgets to balance, may safely investigate the late George Szell's album of the last three and best symphonies (Columbia; 3 LPs; $ 11.98). Most other fans of the Czech nationalist will want to save their pennies for this set. Kubelik's surging way with the music catches its color and drama and seems to belie the uneven moments in some of the early symphonies. The Berlin Philharmonic, reduced so often to a static silkiness...