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Awful CD Transfer

Elfin F. Vogel | New York, NY United States | 02/09/2001

(1 out of 5 stars)

"EMI is doing Busch a great disservice in issuing these horrendous CDs. (I had a very disappointing experience with another Busch Quartett CD, the one of Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartett. The CDs sound like they have been recorded off an old, scratchy LP. Since I own several Busch LPs I can say with confidence that the sound quality of those is considerably better. The CDs have strong hiss and other mistakes, such as sudden pitch changes (just horrible to listen to). This CD is a total waste of money."

One of the worst CD transferring I have ever heard

LEE, Youngrok | Seoul, Republic of Korea | 10/28/2000

(1 out of 5 stars)

"This recording was very attractive and persuasive in playing quality judging from LP version(I think only Gilels-Amadeus' DG recording is better than this in 9 records of mine), but some serious problems perfectly made this CD garbage. At 1st movement, between 4:05 and 4:06(130th bar), there is an absurd pause which is not in original score. I was able to know that the recording pitch is a bit lower than that before the strange pause, and that this lower pitch was maintained to the end of this work. At the third movement; (1) There is a 16th rest in original score in 59th bar. In this CD, this rest is too long (between 3:01 and 3:02). (2) The eighth rest at the 133rd bar is too long, which is between 5:41 and 5:42. I did compare this to other issues of same recording. The one is released by EMI France(LP), and the other 'The Art of Adolf Busch(17-CD set)' by Toshiba-EMI(Japan). The playing time of this international version is considerably longer than those of the both, and the pitch of 2~4th movements is lower. Version Record Number Media 1st mvt. 2nd mvt. 3rd mvt. 4th mvt. Int'l CDH 5 65190 2 CD 13:10 9:00 10:17 8:29 EMI France 2908061 LP 13:05 8:35 9:14 7:51 Toshiba-EMI TOCE-6781~97 CD 13.08 8:33 9:18 7:48 Judging only from the playing time, who can know these issues have the same source? And none of the both have the same problems as the international version, and strange long rests are never detectable in them. At the same place of LP, I was able to discern only small junction noise of tape editing. In short, this record is totally garbage in quartet. ..."