On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 10:56:02 +0000 (GMT), Bob Latham
wrote:



Actually, I've just remembered and I'm going to have to fess up. Strange
as it may seem and against all I've already said about using classical for
evaluation, I can remember when the dealer put the 208 on against my 207
the disc chosen from my collection by him that stood out as having a
considerable improvement was:

Dvorak Symphony No.9
Wiener Philharmonika - Kirill Kondrashin
Decca 400 047-2
So the exception that proved the rule. Still like that recording.

(It is all streamed from the server now so it is quick and easy to find
that information.)

That event must have been roughly 1990 and anticipating that someone was
likely check the release date of the recording I checked it myself. The
disc offered by Arkivmusic.com isn't the same at all. Different cover and
other works on the disc mine had nothing else on it.


Cheers,

Bob.

I too liked that recording. It was amongst the earliest CDs that I
bought; that one would probably been acquired in 1983.

According to the liner it was recorded in the Sofiensaal in September
1979 and released on CD in 1982.