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CharmNewton

I stand corrected on the importance of the Federal excise tax on liquor to overall revenue. I suspect tobacco played a part as well. I'll have to get a copy of Oreck's book. Looking at the relationship between the temperance movement and the passage of the Revenue Act of 1913, it's hard to see a con...

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The Revenue Act of 1913 was signed into law 100 years ago today by Woodrow Wilson (D). The act had the additional purpose of updating tariff rates (reducing a great many), which up until the imposition of an income tax on individuals had been the main source of revenue for the Federal Government. I...

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The Revenue Act of 1913 was signed into law 100 years ago today by Woodrow Wilson (D). The act had the additional purpose of updating tariff rates (reducing a great many), which up until the imposition of an income tax on individuals had been the main source of revenue for the Federal Government. Pe...

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The Malcuzynski set interests me as well.

I've seen photos of these with the Warner Classics logo, not EMI. I find it a bit disconcerting. I hope the EMI brand isn't disappearing.

John

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Sony has been issuing CDs as Original Jacket replicas of LPs for many years now. The DG Originals series may have started things rolling, but they issued the CDs in jewel cases. The non-playing side looked like a mini-LP, even mimicking the look of grooves. Sony/BMG is getting very good at this sor...

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Can these actually be CDs from the new set, mocked up to look like analog discs with facsimiles of the original labels? It's a puzzlement. At first I thought they could not possibly be CDs until I realized that you can have a hole in the middle as it needs no spindle in order to play, and there is ...

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My LP is with a friend overseas and I haven't heard it in along time but am listening to some of it on Youtube. None of the schmaltzy, dripping with saccharine, style of playing for Lee. These were composed in the classical period and nearly all recordings are too slow and overuse rubato. Lee recog...

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Here are some things in the set you might not have... Beethoven 3, 6, 8, & 9 Reiner didn't make a commercial recording of Beethoven's 8th in Chicago (I would be nice if one was in the can), as RCA had recorded it in Boston with Munch (originally coupled with Beethoven's 9th--there's a rare shaded d...

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Holden Fourth wrote:Thank you John. I don't have a turntable any more and relied on my questionable memory. Didn't Nonesuch get taken over by Warner?

Nonesuch was a subsidiary label of Elektra. Warner acquired Elektra and it became part of the WEA group in the 1970s carrying Nonesuch with it.

John

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As for Szell, I don't know that he would have conducted the 10th anyway, or if he ever did. He made an early stereo recording of the two movements completed by Mahler (Epic LC-3568/BC-1024 coupled with Walton's Partita for Orchestra ). It was also used to fill out his concert recording of Mahler's ...

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I believe you are correct. The Field incomplete Nocturnes on Turnabout was never reissued. I'm glad I kept my LP, as I have retained EVERY LP I own (how ridiculous in that much is replicated on CD). Noel Lee was accomplished American pianist who seemed to do better in Europe than in the USA in term...

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I believe this set only contains the CSO recordings and his last recording made in New York (which fills out the disc with Haydn Symphony No. 88 and which was originally coupled on LP with Das Lied von der Erde ). Some of the titles will be re-mastered (such as Beethoven's 9th). Beethoven's Pastoral...

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The Bose 901 is still available, now in Series VI. Along with the Klipschhorn, it is one of the longest running lines of audio components to remain continuously available. I first heard the 901s back in 1969 and loved their sound, but they were far out of my reach. Today, they sell for around $1,500...

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I found an early pressing of this recording, still new, in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I didn't think much of the sound and don't remember much about the performance, and since I no longer have it I can't add anything new. But the one thing I do recall about the recording was the gimmicky, ping-p...

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Thanks again--many thanks. This is not from the recording, but it is Chapuis performing Bach's most improbable and greatest organ fugue, and on one of the world's great organs. (Who else in his right mind would compose a fugue on such a subject?). In the Telefunken series, Chapuis was still enamore...

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My contribution to this thread: http://www.discogs.com/Bach-Daniel-Chorzempa-Organ-Works/release/3553118 Yes, I still have it. It is the best performance of the Passacaglia I have ever heard, and I would keep a turntable around just to be able to hear it again. There are a number of copies of this ...

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My contribution to this thread: http://www.discogs.com/Bach-Daniel-Chorzempa-Organ-Works/release/3553118 Yes, I still have it. It is the best performance of the Passacaglia I have ever heard, and I would keep a turntable around just to be able to hear it again. There are a number of copies of this ...

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If British and European Orchestra's can do so well with their own labels then why can't the many Great American Orchestras do the same... Chicago has put out quite a number of fine recordings on its Resound label - Haitink, Boulez, Muti the BSO released a couple, IIRC, anmd I think NYPO has as well...

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Regarding the Janis box, reviewers on Amazon.com note that three recordings previously issued are missing from this collection. Listed below are the contents (as described from Sony Classical, Germany) that are supposed to be in the box: CD 1: Beethoven - Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 "Tem...

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Anyone that votes for someone who has conducted himself in as brazenly a fraudulent manner as Obama has during his presidency deserves every last bit of what they get if he is re-elected. I have absolutely nothing more to say on the matter. The fraud in this election is not the President but Mitt R...

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Barenboim This is from Barenboim's early Bruckner cycle in Chicago. The Eighth was one of the last of the symphonies to be recorded (December, 1980) and is in digital sound, It uses the Haas Edition of the score. To me, the CD improves on the dryis...

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2BkuRU4EiL._SL500_AA300_.jpg This is a fine concert of gems from Scriabin, Schumann, Ravel and Liszt, including encores, presented complete on two discs. HIghly recommended! It seems Volodos is one of the most under-the-radar pianists in recorded history. Hi...

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This is all I could find: Met-Konigskinder Check out the cast below! :shock: :D :D :D :D Role Voice type Premiere Cast, 28 December 1910 (Conductor: Alfred Hertz) Goose-Girl (Gänsemagd) soprano Geraldine Farrar Witch (Hexe) contralto Louise Homer King's son (Köningssohn) tenor Herman Jadlowker Fidd...

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John, I rarely go by reviews if it is a work that is not performed regularly. I love 'Hansel und Gretel' and I have heard 'Konigskinder' on CD. This may be the only time I will ever see this underrated opera, so I will take my chances and hope for the best visually. 8) Regards, Mel 8) I hope you en...

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stenka razin wrote:Thank you, John. I really appreciate your research, my friend.

Regards,
Mel

Are you still planning on ordering it?

John

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Well, I didn't stop breathing, but I did come to tears as the camera showed the faces of young people responding with life-changing awe to that kind of performance. At the risk of breaking the spell, there is a theory that Bach's most famous organ work, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, is in fact ...

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Many years ago I attended a lecture given by David Burge where he played (and carefully drew out on the large lecture hall blackboard) a piece by Xenakis, which if I recall correctly allowed the performer to pick and choose what and when he wished to perform from separate passages of music, each sev...

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Have been exploring the these two sets from Italian DG: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/316N%2BrhTAEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg and http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51i-hGOXp-L._SL500_AA300_.jpg Volume 1 (8 CDs) can be generally had from several U.S. sources, and may be of more interest to some a...

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I once owned an equally improbable recording of that concerto by Artur Rubinstein with Rudolf Serkin conducting (RCA Red Label as I recall), and it was wonderful. I'd love to know what happened in the studio for that one, since Rubinstein occasionally let a performance with a mistake make the press...

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Film and Show Music can be often found in the Classical section, so, for that reason Hamlish would fit within my reading of the CMG Guidelines, also, Hamlish played the Music of Scott Joplin for The Sting, Joplin is considered to be a Classical Composer by all the Record Companies and CD Stores, Th...

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There are all kinds of methods for cleaning LPs and 78s, some of them pretty strange, but this do beat all. Not on my records, thank you - I have other methods that work well enough for me. (He sure let a lot of dust pile up on that LP before finally getting around to cleaning it. That shouldn't ha...

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Jussi Bjorling
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Fritz Wunderlich
Boris Christoff
Enrico Caruso
Lucia Popp

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(early) Joni Mitchell
Alison Krauss

John

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Searching out information on magnetic tape recording led to a YouTube search for video of or about Jack Mullin which led to this video on cleaning vinyl: _gyvipBs6Vs&feature=related Looks like it requires some care, but the before and after shows marked improvement. Anyone here have experience with ...

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I have spent many recent hours listening to many versions of the Opus 109, 100 & 111 by a wide assortment of great pianists, trying to determine if any one stands out as the most special, the most definite and the most musically satisfying. This was a labour of love and to come to a definitive conc...

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Thank you Harris. I stand corrected (and corrected my initial post). I was so taken with her playing that I referred to the incorrect school. Graffman has done wonders with some of his students! Lance.. I believe you're incorrect about her studies. She was a student of Graffman at the Curtis Instit...

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I bought her first CD, but have stayed away from the others as her sound comes across to me as spiky and colorless. Perhaps her tone is better than what has been captured on disc.

John

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I expect my AT Edition in the new form at any time. I understand the set has been improved sonically. The original AT Edition/Collection was also delightful with full booklets with each CD or set of CDs. The price is right for this edition (I think it's 85 CDs) which can generally be had for less t...

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A number of months back I compared Ashkenazy with Alice Sara Ott's then new release of Sonatas 3 and 21, and I greatly preferred Ms Ott. Technically she sounds like a stronger player, is more overtly expressive and she produces a ravishing piano tone. An Alberti bass in her hands sounds like a beaut...

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Both he and pizza (another who hasn't posted in a long while and I hope is well) got into a number of lively discussions. I hope Ralph's health improves.

John

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:shock: All I can say is that if Tarantella managed to get a regular member interested in such an important work then this whole kerfuffle was worth it. (I can recommend the performance by Charles Rosen if you can find it, but as usual I am not the top person here for making such recommendations.) ...

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As to Opus 109 - final movement: those tender few notes in that melody, which allow the piano to sing a kind of hymn. It's as if Beethoven is saying, 'I'm going to close this late sonata with a set of variations on a simple melody because I've stripped music to it's abstract essence and I firmly be...

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Chalkperson wrote:How come this is not a single disc collection? and that disc should be Previn, not Boult for the 300th time...

I suspect the Previn will be issued on SACD by itself as part of their new re-issue series. It was (and probably still is) an audiophile classic.

John

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I purchased this set and have listened to the first two discs and part of the third, and like what I've heard. The Fugal Concerto is memorable in this lovely performance. Boult's 1979 The Planets sounds stunning in this 2002 re-mastering.

John

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I felt sad to read this. I've enjoyed her recordings that have come my way.

John

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Nor does it include the 1964 Salzburg recital of the Magelone cycle and four other songs (recorded by ORF) issued by EMI in 1989 (part of a 3-CD collection of Salzburg recitals by DFD and Moore), which can be had for as little as $5 in the Amazon.com marketplace. http://www.amazon.com/Salzburg-Recit...

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I note that Qualiton is the supplier to Amazon for this set. Amazon must've had a run on orders for this set at the $7.99 price for the set and didn't realize their pricing error until later. No doubt Qualiton could had to reorder for the initial enslaught of orders in April given the great price. ...

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Interesting stuff. RCA Victor did get the Beethoven sonatas from Piatigorsky with Solomon as the pianist, through its partnership with HMV (which was soon to lapse). And the Rachmaninoff sonata with Piatigorsky and Horowitz would surely have been wild and woolly. :) But if a Piatigorsky-Kapell reco...

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You're right that Piatigorsky never recorded the sonata, and it's kind of curious that he didn't, and that his record company RCA Victor recorded the sonata with Edmund Kurtz instead. Piatigorsky was on friendly terms with Rachmaninoff and did record the Vocalise. Maybe he played the sonata though ...

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Off the top of my head, Leonard Rose is another who didn't record it. An equally interesting list would include all the major cellists who have not recorded the Rachmaninoff. At the top would be Pablo Casals, of course; Peter Wispelwey has been named; I could add Pierre Fournier. Who else? Feuerman...

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You're right, Decca did issue the Soviet recording in the UK, though they didn't make it themselves. I believe it has also had many other LP and CD incarnations over the years (one never knows with Soviet era recordings as these artists appeared together often under orchestras of various names). Su...

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