Rival disasters

Not surprisingly, competing entries for the title of Worst Recording Ever Made have surfaced elsewhere on the Internet. Bob Shingleton puts forward a weirdly misconceived East German rendition of Mikis Theodorakis's Axion esti; Marc Geelhoed has serious trouble with a CD of Ezra Pound's music; David Weininger mentions Ferenc Fricsay's Symphony of Psalms; Lisa Hirsch (dis)likes Lorin Maazel's Tosca; Anastasia Tsioulcas proposes Stefan Zucker (although humorously bad performances and cult...