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...many Angel LPs attest (notably the Bach Flute Sonatas with Harpsichordist George Malcolm), Shaffer is thoroughly at home in the recording studio. "Making a recording is like taking your stage makeup off," she says. "For example, the same tempi that work well before an audience tend to sound too slow coming from a disk. The same is true of dynamics. You can't be as loud, and you can't be as soft." Wherever she is playing, Shaffer tries to preserve the feeling that she is singing instead of merely blowing. That helps explain why she watches...
BERLIOZ: BENVENUTO CELLINI (Philips, 4 LPs). Berlioz's first opera is deeply poetic, grandly exuberant and stunningly performed under Conductor Colin Davis...
SCHOENBERG, BERG, WEBERN: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS (DG, 5 LPs). A landmark of recorded chamber music by the La Salle Quartet...
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 8 (London, 2 LPs). Conductor Georg Solti triumphs in a work that, in emotional scope and array of forces, is a most difficult challenge to recording...
HAYDN: SYMPHONIES NOs. 49 TO 56 (London Stereo Treasury, 4 LPs). A choice sampling of the rich little-known "middle-period" symphonies, stylishly conducted by Antal Dorati...