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Mozart: Overtures.(Sound Recording Review)
Mozart: Overtures. Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. EMI 7243 5 85060 2.
Time is a funny thing. When you're a kid, you want it to go by in a hurry so you can grow up fast. When you're an adult, you'd prefer it slowed way, way down. I got to thinking about time when I saw that EMI had re-released Marriner's Mozart Overtures on their budget-label Encore series.
It seems like only yesterday, 1982, when Marriner first released these performances, and they went straight to the top of the charts. They were the best we had and at the moment still the best we've got. To be able to buy them new for less than the cost of the old full-price disc at a used-record store is remarkable.
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