However the later RCA issue does contain some additional items by Granados, although what precisely they are seems to vary from reissue to reissue; and the two RCA versions currently shown on Amazon (one a Japanese reissue, and the other described as "remastered") both claim to include not only Goyescas but also the Spanish Dances, a claim that must surely mean that one of both the major works is not given complete. None of the reviews on Amazon provide any enlightenment on this point, I'm afraid.
On the other hand I should have noted the comment by Jed Distler in his March 2020 Gramophone review of the various versions of the score where he referred to the Decca recording now reissued by Presto as "the third and arguably most satisfying of her four recorded versions." But at the same time he too totally disregards the existence of the later RCA recording.
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