LPs batch 26: more sticking points

I actually recorded these LPs some months ago, but am behind with writing them up. This batch began with a Hungaroton transfer of Beethoven violin sonatas performed by Dénes Kovacs and Mihaly Bächer. Some of the other discs in the batch proved to be problematic. Solti and the VPO doing Schubert’s ‘Great’ C major symphony had to be re-recorded after it had some peculiar crackles on it. Another recording of the same symphony by Haitink and the Concertgebouw fared rather better. Two other discs in the batch stuck: firstly, Winchester Cathedral Choir singing Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary and some assorted other baroque anthems (including several real favourites of mine). Croft’s Funeral Sentences proved to be impossible to rescue, but fortunately the rest of the recording could be transferred, although it’s pretty crackly because I played it a lot. Dvořák’s 7th symphony (with Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic) also stuck until recorded on a different setting.