Article: Classical: The Compact Collection Rob Cowan on the Week's CD Relaeases

I HAVE often wondered how our critical faculties would react if all the radio archives across the world were to pool their resources and flood the CD market with exciting live historic recordings. Would people suddenly get wise to the bland predictability of so many studio productions?

Well, it could certainly happen - and BBC Music's long-awaited Legends CDs follow a trend that has already gained considerable momentum throughout the rest of the Europe. Production values on the new series are high; the presentation is up-beat, the annotation is informative and well written, and the technical restoration mostly excellent. Initial choices have been judicious, repertoire-wise, centring for the ...

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