塞戈维亚在美国迪卡唱片的录音 第一辑 　　Instead of taking advantage of the 80 minutes or so that can be squeezed onto a cd, the producers of this box set elected to reproduce, on a one for one basis, the first six LP's that Andres Segovia recorded for Decca Records. This approach respects the artist's thematic plan for each LP as it was recorded, recognizing that an album is a sum of its individual parts and not just a collection of randomly chosen pieces. Not only that, each cd jacket in this set reproduces the front and back cover of the original album - in this case some great 1950's era modern art. This is absolutely the way this music should be reissued and the way prospective purchasers should acquire it. 　　 　　Despite this, I bought this box set with some trepidation in that I had recently purchased the four-cd anthology "Segovia Collection" (DG) and worried that there might be a lot of duplication between the sets. Both consist of sides Segovia recorded for Decca, now part of the Universal Music Group (as is DG), and where Segovia spent his recording career from the mid-1940's until his death in 1987. The good news is that only two tracks from the six cd Decca set appear in the "Segovia Collection"; and if Universal continues to issue the Segovia material in consecutive order as it appears on this new set, which seems to be their intention as it is titled "The American Decca Recordings 1," then I'll replace the anthology with the new reissues. 　　 　　In any event, the first cd in this set was recorded in 1944, and then eight years elapsed until the next recordings were made - in fact, three albums which were set down over several sessions in April of 1952 when Segovia was in New York. The fifth and sixth cd's were recorded in April-May, 1954, again in Decca's New York studio.