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SONY CLASSICS
ITZHAK PERLMAN/Original Jacket Collection: and
JASCHA HEIFETZ/Original Jacket Collection: This is some stuff you just can’t argue with. While hipsters and insiders love to take potshots over the Sony BMG merger, it does yield benefits and pleasures when bulky treasure chests like this multi-label compilation come about as the result. Two ten cd box sets of premiere violinists of their time in reproductions of the original album jacket is a pretty hot inducement to become a classical music fan right there. Priced fairly for what you get and remastered to bring the sound as forward as possible, these sets are pretty fair representations of both players in their golden periods, in a variety of settings and giving it their all pretty much all the way through. As the Heifetz set is made of material recorded starting in the late 40s, old time fans should be interested in the sonic update alone if they love this music. With certainly enough music on board to keep you preoccupied once you slap this on your Ipod, it’s easy to get lost in what’s going on here as you let the day’s trials fade away. Simply great stuff throughout.
Volume 31/Number 194
May 12, 2008
MIDWEST RECORD
830 W. Route 22 #144
Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
©2008 Midwest Record
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