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Flea market gems from Hungary with love

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Flea market gems from Hungary with love The King is naked! Gyorgy Ranki? Yes! His composing skill reminds me some movies soundtrack with a tad of Respighi and Bernard Hermann... lets not forget the like of another Hungarian composer, Miklos Rozsa, wrote for Hollywood truly remarkable OSTs. Lovely disc and music, with a recording of seldom heard quality: on side one there are some great passages were unison bassoons, tuba and double-basses shake the building! Hungaroton really knew its business! download file now

Flea market goodies

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Flea market goodies Great finds, today... the prize for browsing records-bins this early morning with bare hands, at -7 degrees Centigrade;-) Superb, conducted by the author himself... a recording to die for! A mint Lyrita pressed by Decca for EUR 2? Yes I can;-)  Obscure Danish orchestral music...  A seldom seen nugget, the creme de la creme of ancient music specialists from The Netherlands... a live recording! WOW! Whos who! M. Blandine Verlet... an Astree/Valois recording... Superb! Maestro Szell conducting... Japanese pressing, killer recording, superb music. ... ahhhh, those cellos and double basses pizzicatos on side two.... A masterpiece and a super-disc... three records-set and booklet, mint Japanese pressing. Elegant box-set... vinyl on canvas;-) Gustav Leonhards Telefunken early pressing, mint.  Satie for orchestra, orchestration by... Claude Debussy! Killer sound! Great, seldom heard music... nice recording, super dynamics! ... nice Japanese pressing.  The...