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That sounds intriguing! I've not heard much Prokofiev yet, mostly the violin concertos and some chamber music (sonatas, arrangements/encores) ... don't even have any symphonies I actually went for (No. 1 by Toscanini and Kurtz, and that No. 5 by Szell - picked up in some large coffins or some mish-mash cheapo-sets). But I love that word "eupeptic" (didn't ever hear it before) - even more so in relation to (often) fake-grave Karajan

I guess so ... but I don't know my way around classical music quite that well yet, so I don't know whose takes on what I'll always be interested in. That needs lots of time. Anyway, just got the shipping notice for the Horenstein box (also have his "Lieder von der Erde" on the way, that BBC disc).

Well, it would be easier if actually I knew what I wanted

Still not sure about buying the Sawallisch, but for "Elias" alone I should ... then there's also this sucker, I paid like five times as much for half of its contents shortly before it arrived: it's been dirt-cheap ever since it was out (22 € at amazon.it), yet I've not bought it (having already the Chopin - or much of it -, Schumann, Schubert, Debussy and Encores)

Oh, it will take me years probably to make it through it all once ... still haven't started with the Ansermet box at all. And no problem, didn't take your comment negatively at all - I know where you're coming from and understand that position very well. I've got lots of Beethoven and some Brahms, but not much of the others you mention (well, lots of their violin conertos, but ...) This one, but I think it might have been mentioned - looks like the most interesting of these: goes for 28 € at the moment: http://www.amazon.it/The-Art-Wolfgang-Sawallisch-Wolfang/dp/B00D10ITAE/

You've been in the business longer than me ... I'm through in some areas I feel - not as far as listening goes, but I don't need more recordings of stuff ... but symphonic is still mostly new to me. So yeah, I plucked that day indeed

ended where Gus Johnson went out yesterday (disc 4) - now discs 5-8

I think I read (somewhere here, where else) that Vol. 1 didn't sell well enough so the follow-up(s) were shelved. There were to be two more? That much more material? What a missed opportunity! Guess people prefer to buy the seventeenth reissue of some Miles or BN classic before trying Steve White. Maybe they're right, what do I know ...

There's some Staier I love and plenty I enjoy but don't consider "great", but the Mozart sonatas I've heard just don't work (have some concertos, too - but not listened to them yet)

Very nice one indeed! Too bad there never was a second volume ... I didn't manage to snatch up a few Fantasy discs containing some more Nocturne material while they were easy to find ...

Have the Bilson on the way ... shoukd arrive tomorrow or day after! And having the one Müllejahns/Bezuidenhout violin sonatas disc, I'm more than tempted to check out some of his Mozart piano sonatas. Not sure what it is, but I don't hook up with Staier's Mozart at all so far.

So it was? Saw it and wondered if that was some diner sharing the same name or the real one ... that's cool!

So are the violin sonatas by Ferras/Barbizet!

That would be the regular/shorter ones, right? I'm confused by all this talk about different editions here (the "box" referred to above is always the complete album collection, there never was a Japan 1975 box, right?). Anyway, I'll just wait and see - hope I don't regret this order ...

currently € 35.99 on amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0002K6ZL6/

not having access to spotters, there's other ways to find many versions: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/albumList.jsp?name_id1=7537&name_role1=1&comp_id=14812&bcorder=15 http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/59578/Gustav-Mahler-Das-Lied-von-der-Erde Plenty of more recent recordings around indeed! Btw, I ordered the Horenstein, promped by this thread ... no shipping confirmation just yet, but crossing my fingers!

Played the entire Satchmo box indeed yesterday - some great stuff, and very few real clunkers (just a couple of overly silly novelty tunes really) ... now back with Basie. Probably will make it through disc five, maybe six.

So with the recs I got here for the Blu-Specs (just got a shipping confirmation), no one here knows what version in on them? Not that it matters that much to me, but I ordered them because of endorsement of other folks here, so I'd assume some would know? Or did I just miss it in the above discussion?

disc 5 again - the quartet date with Raymond Fol - beautiful stuff, too bad the final tape reel (on it two more complete takes of "Everything Happens to Me" as well as the lost "What Is There to Say" in one complete take) is missing!

Never been too big on him, but yeah, he was great in that film (which though seemed a tad unfinished to me - but still pretty good). Sorry way to go.

Let Asia assemble your phone? Sure, no matter if they die on the way there ... they're not merikan, right? As for "face value" ... where would that face be, behind the mask?

discs 4-5 of the Chet box

You have a point there ... still it seems to me there's a somewhat general shift to sonic issues over music, and I wanted to merely point that out, since I regret it .... but in the end it's of course one's own decision whether to keep searching or to restrain oneself to the umpteenth Blue Note reissue. In that spirit, my negative comment is also a good-natured nudge - but then again, as they say (I hate this saying, it has nazi implications) "to each his own".

The Complete Decca Studio Recordings of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars let's see how far I get - maybe the whole thing ... feels like a Satchmo day

me too!