Keilberth's 1953 Bayreuth Ring (re-released by Pan Classics)

[Tapiola]

Bathtaps!

I tend to blow hot and cold, EA

[Madame Suggia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfKjgXTZ0Rw

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I tend to blow hot and cold, EA

[Dave2002]

Afraid not. When I first played it two years ago I stuck a post-it on the cover noting that there was a "crescendo" problem in the last track, but no other details. Anyway, it looks like it was a defect in my old CD player, since the disc sounds OK on the new one.

I'm curious to know what you mean by a crescendo fault. Must have been there and repeatable as you took the trouble to note it on a post it etc. It's hard to see how a CD could change, though it's not unreasonable that different CD players could give different results - though somewhat hard to explain unless the player has some specific features. For example, my car CD player plays through a system which I believe adjusts the volume levels, depending on road noise and content features, so that could explain volume level anomalies such as you mention. A regular CD player should not, AFAIK, be adjusting volume levels, so it's hard to see any explanation which would match the description of your fault.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Perhaps it's a reference to the remastering of the original recordings? The REGIS issue of the Furtwanger Tristan had moments when it appeared as if you were turning up the volume.

[umslopogaas]

Dave 2002, I cant be sure, it was two years ago, but I suspect it was a distortion in the sound of an orchestral climax. If so, it could have been due to the inability of the old CD player to "track" that music, by analogy to the inability of poor quality cartridges to track loud bits on LPs. I dont know enough about how CD players work to be very confident of that, but I cant think of anything else, given that it sounds fine on my new, much more expensive player.