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CharmNewton

Thank you, John. That's a heck of a great price. I know several people who paid considerably more. I only paid $150 for mine, no tax and no postage. I'm sure everyone who really wanted this set must have it by now. There must be an overrun of the sets! The highest I saw on Amazon was $900, but I'm ...

CharmNewton

The Szell collection.

John

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If anyone was still sitting on the fence on this set, Amazon.com is offering it for $131.99 in stock on November 7th and delivered by Monday November 12th.

John

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Yes Szeryng's Mozart sonatas with Ingrid Haebler are very good too. I feel he has been badly underestimated since Perlman's quip about not recognising his playing. Mind I sometimes find the same with Gil Shaham, another superb player. I'm not familiar with this quotation. Can you provide it more fu...

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Barenboim has a long relationship with the Chicago Symphony going back to 1970. I'm not sure his remarks aren't hiding hurt feelings at not being asked to return sooner. Giulini was never asked back after his last concert in 1978, although he did return several times with the L.A. Philharmonic. He w...

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Two omissions that stand out to me are a complete RCA/Columbia Pablo Casals Edition and a complete RCA/Columbia Budapest Quartet Edition. Until recently, Sony hasn't shown much interest in the Budapest Quartet at all in the U.S. The not-so-complete EMI Casals Edition omitted his recordings as a cond...

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I sampled several of these discs via Spotify and compared a number of selections with RCA recordings of Arthur Rubinstein. Brailowsky's playing seemed slightly more nuanced than Rubinstein as far as dynamics, especially in really soft passages. But tempi were pretty straight, sometimes very fast, ev...

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This collection contains the 6 discs Milstein recorded for DG and 31 discs recorded for EMI, mostly for Capitol and some later discs that appeared on Angel. The box does not claim the EMI is complete. I came across this set (on eBay) while trying to determine whether Universal or Warner had the righ...

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I haven't seen a listing of the contents of this set. but I have to believe that about two-thirds of it will be material he recorded with Heifetz. That's fine unless you already have it. So this looks like a pass for me.

John

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This box contains the 48 CDs that made up an earlier 4-box EMI release plus a bonus CD containing Prokofiev's Classical Symphony from Berlin in 1948.

John

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I'm a paid subscriber to Spotify and I like the service. I initially signed up for the free version to listen to new releases, but they have a vast amount of classical music available (for example, Leonard Bernstein's complete music for solo piano in a new DG, download-only release by Katie Mahan wh...

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Thanks! That answers one question about the substitution, that Toscanini did know about it and approved it. Other questions remain, chiefly how Toscanini came to record the same music in two different tempos in the space of maybe half an hour, but since everyone involved is now dead, they'll probab...

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Robert C. Marsh, longtime music critic of the Chicag0 Sun-Times, on p. 134 of his book Toscanini and the Art of Conducting wrote about the 1936 Beethoven 7th: "... The best statement of Toscanini's performance is the 1936 set as originally issued , that is, with the opening pages taken slowly and ma...

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I looked in vain to find even a commercial recording of Bernstein's 1938 piano sonata. I don't believe it is in any of his mega boxed sets performed by anyone. Other than YT, does anyone know of a commercial recording of the work? U.S. Amazon.com has three recordings which are part of collections o...

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Well, he recorded Albinoni, a bunch of Haydn symphonies, some Mozart on the piano and in collaboration with Frederica von Stade. I do not believe there was much else. Did Previn record any music from before the mid-19th century, and is it any good? All I've heard is late 19th to 20th century. He re...

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Bruno Walter's Columbia Symphony recording of Symphony No. 8 has a joyfulness I find captivating. Charles Munch's recording, made around the same time, is pretty exciting and still holds up well today. Both are well recorded too. Giulini's Chicago Symphony recording of the Symphony No. 9 brings out ...

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Professor Drake visited the University of Illinois at Chicago c. 1971 where he gave a lecture and performed Beethoven on a Broadwood piano from, I believe, the 1850s. This was pretty novel back then. I remember seeing him preparing his piano before his lecture and delighted in the warm and intimate ...

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I've got a question. Can anybody help, please? My G. Henle Verlag score of Beethoven's Op. 2/1 has a repeat marking at the end of the first movement back to Bar 19 (the development). That doesn't seem to be observed in any of the recordings or the analyses I've encountered. Can anybody tell me, the...

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She made a number of recordings for Nimbus in the early days of CD. Looks like she recorded No. 3 of the D. 899 set and all four of the D. 935. You can listen to them on Spotify. I didn't like the sound of the piano as reproduced--somewhat distant and clangorous, bright and spiky. I believe these Ni...

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https://tinyurl.com/yazlpxds I remember buying this as a new release and still have my copy. It was the first recording I'd ever heard that had all the repeats. Like Monteux's Vienna Eroica , which used Beethoven's orchestration for the climax near the end of the first movement, it had the jolt of ...

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https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71pClJfVftL._SL1073_.jpg I've enjoyed Ms. Haebler's recordings of Mozart, Schubert, Chopin (her recording of the Nocturnes for Vox is one of the best I've heard, never issued on CD as far as I can tell) and J.C. Bach and was delighted to find this re...

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My thanks to maestro for uncovering this set here in the U.S. at such an attractive price. I only have a couple of CDs of Magaloff recorded late in his career, so I'm looking forward to exploring this wide ranging set.

John

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A few comments about the packaging of the LSR collection. Each CD is housed in a glossy paper sleeve that reproduces the booklet cover photo of the original Yedang CD. They are nice to the touch and generally attractive. However, frequently the contents on the back of each disc are listed in a font ...

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For those who wish to know how much duplication exists between the Yedang Classics Legendary Soviet Recordings (LSR) and Brilliant Classics Russian Legends (RL) boxes, I've gone through the contents of both and listed the duplications below: David Oistrakh: Beethoven: "Kreutzer" Sonata w/ Frieda Bau...

CharmNewton

Thank you, thank you! I'll check them out. Appreciate it. Crutchfield is still selling car CD players. If your car's receiver has a line input that takes a stereo mini-jack (like you see on headphones) you should be able to connect a portable CD player to it via the player's headphone jack. With Mi...

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Maestrob, you should contact amazon.co.jp Customer Service via Help. They can help you through the process. Once you get set up, you'll have a login that will differ from the one for other Amazon sites but ordering will be easy.

John

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I've listened to about half of the Cortot EMI box and it is compiled from both new and very old transfers. The newer ones, such as the Victor acoustics and early electrics sound very good. Victor mastered electrical recording quickly and captured his sound well. There are others that sound awful. Fo...

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My copy arrived on Friday. First up was the Brahms Double Concerto conducted by Bruno Walter. It sounded really awful, as if it was recorded in a cave. I still have a copy of the LP (ML 5076) and listened to it yesterday. While it seemed a bit lacking in highs and some orchestral details, it sounded...

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I understand that Membran licensed this set from Warner as well as the Yves Nat complete edition, which contains an excellent complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle. The Marcelle Meyer collection is not quite complete. She made two recordings of Mozart's Sonata, K. 310. The second recording is in the...

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What is, however, interesting is that the new box set lists Bruckner's 8th as coming in two recorded versions. I am sure one is the stereo version with Cleveland of 1969. But what could the other be? According to abruckner.com's discography, there is another take of this symphony with Szell and Cle...

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Sorry to read this. I've enjoyed his recording of Handel's Concerti Grossi, Op. 6. Lively and colorful music making.

John

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I agree with T. Schurk that recordings by Szell originating on the Sony label are excluded from this collection (one has to sometimes read the titles to these collections like a lawyer). Sony issued 3 CDs of Szell in the 1990s that were licensed from the Austrian Radio (Bruckner symphonies 3 and 7 a...

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He posted a review of his recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Ormandy on Amazon.com, giving it 5 stars and supplying a succinct assessment -- "I think it's the best 4 Seasons recorded. Of course I would.". Sounds like a delightful guy.

John

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Lance, the tracking information from amazon.co.uk is very unreliable, and depending on how much time has passed since your order it may still be on its way. I've had a package reported as delivered that came a week later and others that I've received long ago still showing as in transit. But if it h...

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Given how much live material there is for Vladimir Horowitz (and some others), it seems recorded recitals weren't uncommon back then. Perhaps Horowitz wanted his recitals recorded. Carnegie Hall had an in-house recording setup, as it was that system that was used to record Richter's recitals in 1960...

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An online search of the Carnegie Hall archives list 11 entries for Ms. Jonas, with her appearance with the New York Philharmonic of 10/13/1946 being broadcast.

Possibly any recordings of the 8 solo recitals that she gave there are in the possession of her family.

John

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I'm currently enjoying The Philips Years box along with the RCA CSO collection. I plan to picj up the German Masterworks box and maybe one of the others from Universal, but duplication may be a problem as Universal Italy is overlapping some of the parent company. Among the older, golden generation O...

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Isserlis is one of the outstanding cellists before the public today. His playing is engaging and sounds effortless. He plays a Stradivarius that is an exceptional instrument, even for Stradivarius. This is an outstanding collection. This set isn't quite complete as it omits his recording of the Barb...

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You may be correct. The recordings were made in St. Paul's Church in Cleveland on May 5-7, 1958.

John

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Well, John, you make a point, though my first impression was his "complete" RCA recordings. It is just a slightly bit misleading in my estimation. You may have piqued my interest in acquiring this set after all! And, of course, I would delight in having Stock's and Rodzinski's recordings in one box...

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Like Mr. Johnson, I took this to mean Mr. Ozawa's CSO recordings for RCA. It's part of a series that started with the release of Reiner's recordings in Chicago, continued with those of Jean Martinon, Morton Gould and now Seiji Ozawa. James Levine can't be too far away. Whether we see the CSO recordi...

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All things Bruckner here on John Berky's site, including a complete commercial recordings discog and the Bruckner Society of America. https://www.abruckner.com I'm tempted to believe that AB's cycle is the most affecting of the Romantic Age. My favorite perf is by the Chicago led by Barenboim on DG...

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[1)] Zimerman can't possibly have needed anything like that many retakes; he mostly plays it safe technically. Unless he kept changing his mind about how he wanted to interpret the sonata and had to start over from scratch repeatedly. [2)] While I'm writing, it turns out that Rachmaninoff offered t...

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Hello there, I thought I might drop in and say hello to my wonderful friends on CMG and wish you all a very Happy New Year. These wonderful additions to my modest library arrived last week: http://www.deccaclassics.com/imgs/s300x300/4789604.jpg I don't know why I waited so long to buy this CD: http...

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I don't like the sound of her piano, at least as recorded by DG. To me it lacks distinction. Perhaps her tone is lovelier in concert.

John

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David Bloesch's definitive Schnabel discography in ARSC Journal vol. 18 shows that Schnabel recorded Sonata #15 twice, on 2/3/32 and 2/3&17/33. Why the sonata was rerecorded when all six sides had been approved as master takes, the discography doesn't say. Only inspection of the actual 78s would co...

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I've been listening to this new release over the past few weeks and I feel that the results are mixed. I am impressed with the intensity and dynamics of Schnabel's playing. The wide range of soft to loud and sforzando attacks are very natural sounding. On the other hand, the warm lower octaves seem ...

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Or maybe we can wait until the GOPers get all the illegals out of the country, and we can't buy fruits or vegetables in the supermarket anymore because all the people who harvest them have been deported. And I wonder how those rural GOPers are going to feel after their party shuts down all their po...

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There's the extended violin solos in Strauss' Ein Heldenleben and the flute solos in Mahler's Symphony No. 10 and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain.

John

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You just don't get it - "it" being the topic of this thread as addressed by the President - so I won't repeat myself. However, I will answer one of your questions, and respond to your final comment. What I don't get is--what broke the Internet in the last few weeks that requires government regulati...

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