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From the beginning of commercial recording, new discs purported to be indistinguishable from The Real Thing have regularly been put in circulation.

Seen in perspective, many of these releases have a genuine claim to be milestones.

Although lacking absolute verisimilitude, they supply the ear and the imagination with all necessary materials for re-creation of the original.

On the basis of what they give us we can know how the young Caruso sang, appreciate the distinctive qualities of Parsifal under Karl Muck's baton, or sense the type of ensemble Toscanini created in his years with the New York Philharmonic.