Reviewing the Reviewer: High Fidelity's 1956 Record Annual Revisited

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Jed goes back 70 years to look through High Fidelity’s Record Annual, a compendium of all of the reviews published by High Fidelity magazine in that year. He zeroes in on four releases that continue to hold interest for piano mavens, and what High Fidelity’s critics wrote upon their original LP release in 1956. The recordings have stood the test of time, but what about the reviews?

Here is a link to browse through back issues of High Fidelity:

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/High-Fidelity-Magazine.htm

And here is the link to Mortimer F. Frank’s article about Standards of Criticism that Jed cites in this episode:

https://classicalmusicguide.com/viewtopic.php?t=26605