The Bargain Hunter: World Record Club Reissues, Part One
Nine years ago, my colleague Meles wrote a post on this blog entitled " Audio Nervosa and Matrices: The EMI Reissues Part 1 ", in which he began a survey of the World Record Club (WRC) reissues of "golden age" classical recordings. While I am certain that he had intended to continue this as a series, unfortunately that did not happen. I'd like to pick up the torch and continue this journey that my colleague began nearly a decade ago. There are so many treasures in the WRC discography that can be found for a very reasonable price on the used market, and most of these seem to be in rather excellent to near mint condition. Many of them have very unique, artistic cover art that has even been collected into a book on the subject by Geoff Hocking. One of our readers previously commented that they would like to see more of the cover art of the WRC reissues. Happy to oblige! Starting today, Miles to Mozart will now also include some audio clip samples to give you a litt
