Quite rare to find box sets like this at a busy thrift store like the ARC; even more rare is all twenty-five (ten+fifteen) of the discs were perfect and present; Even more curious is that I wasn’t sure what I was getting, I don’t know much about Sacred Works, and the Haydn Quartets were old, but remastered recordings. I’m not one for bad sound, even if the actual performance is highly regarded.
Turns out that the Sacred Works are basically small choir compositions, something that I’ve recently very much gotten into; the Haydn Quartets sound fine, there is better sound, but they are quite listenable for being recorded in the early-mid 1950s. So, my three-dollar (for both boxes!) gamble really paid off!
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