Re: Help choose complete Beethoven piano sonatas

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>>How is the mono Kempff different from the stereo?  In grand outlines. (Or 
>>in fussy detail, if you prefer. :) )
>> 
>>Lena 
 
> Principally it is in the sound. [...]

>In the 1950s DG's mono sound captured this special sound to 
>perfection. Anyone who ever heard Kempff in the concert hall will
> attest to the richness of the sound. [...]
 
>In the early 1960s, when Kempff was starting a new Beethoven cycle 
>also for DG, it was in stereo. By then the DG engineers decided that
>bass was a problem, so they practically eliminated it! As a result
>Kempff sounds like a light-weight, something he most decidedly was
>NOT. 

Thanks very much.  That's interesting - I do think that bass is something 
of a problem on the stereo Kempff.  (Though I think it's compounded by an 
interpretive decision to be 'light' in other ways, also.) 

Lena