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Happy Birthday!

less than 29 € at amazon.de http://www.amazon.de/Beethoven-Complete-Masterpieces-Ludwig-Van/dp/B000NDEMAI/ Discs 1-5: Die 9 Sinfonien (Tonhalle Orchester Zürich/David Zinman) Discs 6-7: Ouvertüren (Tonhalle Orchester Zürich/David Zinman) Disc 8: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus op. 43 (Ballettmusik) (Litauische Kammerphilharmonie/Karl Anton Rickenbacher Disc 9 Orchester-,Klavier-, Flöten und Violinwerke Discs 10-12: Die 5 Klavierkonzerte (Yefim Bronfman/Tonhalle Orchester Zürich/David Zinman) Disc 13: Violinkonzert op. 61 + Die 2 Violinromanzen op. 40+50 (Christian Tetzlaff/Tonhalleorchester Zürich/David Zinman) Disc 14: Tripelkonzert op. 56; Septett op. 20 (Yefim Bronfman/Tonhalle Orchester Zürich/David Zinman) Discs 15-18: Die 10 Violinsonaten (Pinchas Zukerman/George Neikrug) Discs 19-20: Die 5 Cellosonaten + Variationen (Anner Bylsma/Jos van Immerseel) Discs 21-25: Die 12 Klaviertrios (Seraphin Trio) Disc 26: Die Streichtrios op. 3 und op. 8 (L’Archibudelli Disc 27: Die Streichtrios op. 9,1-3 (Kandinsky String Trio) Disc 28: Klavierquartett op. 16 (Streicherfassung); Klavierquintett op. 16 (Bläserfassung) (Emanuel Ax/Isaac Stern/ Jaime Lardo/YoYo Ma/Ensemble Wien-Berlin) Disc 29: Kammermusik für Streicher und Holzbläser (L’Archibudelli) Disc 30: Oktett op. 103 / Klarinettensextett op. 71 / Märsche für Bäser, u.a. (Mozzafiato) Discs 31-39: Die 16 Streichquartette (Alexander String Quartet) Discs 40-50: Die 32 Klaviersonaten (Yukio Yokoyama, Charles Rosen, Vladimir Horowitz, Justus Frantz, Gerhard Oppitz, Robert Casadesus) Disc 51: Die Bagatellen für Klavier Solo (Yukio Yokoyama) Disc 52: Die Variationen für Klavier Solo (Yukio Yokoyama) Disc 53: Diabelli-Variationen + 4 Klavierstücke WoO (Olli Mustonen) Disc 54: Lieder von den Britischen Inseln (Elaine Woods/Carolyn Watkinson/Richard Salter/Helmut Deutsch) Disc 55: Christus am Ölberge op. 85 (Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy) Disc 56: Messe op. 86 (Tokyo Oratorio Society/Ensemble of Tokyo/Wolfdieter Maurer) Disc 57: Missa Solemnis op. 123 (Tonhalle Orchester Zürich/David Zinman) Disc 58: Chorwerke (Regine Crespin/ New York Philharmonic Orchestra/Thomas Schippers, Ambrosian Opera Chorus/ London Symphony Orchestra/Tilson Thomas Martina Arroyo/ Justine Diaz/ Camerata Singers) Discs 59-60: Fidelio op. 72 (Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Kurt Masur) (I'm not in, but it might be of interest to some)

By far! Yep, Fantasy was doing some great sets when they sold out to Concord. The 3 Trane boxes, the Davis Quintet, the Stitt, the Evans VV, etc. Beautiful stuff. Concord gives us the "... Plays for Lovers" series. Those were all released after the Concord sale. Excellent sets far superior to anything Fantasy put out. Sadly Concord got cold feet ater an initial flurry of great releases. My summary of the situation would be: Fantasy = quantity but no quality Concord = quality but no quantity. Take your choice! Not sure ... I agree about the presentation of those boxes, mostly the three Coltrane ones, which are indeed wonderfully done (but the way the discs are stored is still beyond moronic). How many of those were in the planning stages when Concord took over and/or prepared by Fantasy folks that were laid off soon after? Anyway, certainly OJCCDs were "basic" if you want - but I love them still, don't feel any need to get Japanese replacements, they sound alright in 99% of the cases, which cannot be said of the product that Verve put out in the late 80s/early 90s (they only started doing nice presentations in the second half of the nineties, too, just in case ...), neither can it be said of the early Sony CDs or of any BN CDs (we're past all those fights, but there are bad-sounding McMasters, bad RVGs ... to an extent I never felt there were bad Fantasy discs ever - and early BN CDs, 1987-89 or so, when they put out virtually their entire catalogue - were just as basic presentation wise as OJCCDs were). As for Concord, I'm not a nay-sayer in general, they put out some good stuff (those late Getz albums for instance!) that goes a bit further than their reputation (as I perceive it) admits. But their taking over of Fantasy really hasn't resulted in all that much.

You can find it online, but a link is probably not permitted ...

Eugen Cicero? sample here: http://www.amazon.de/Handmade-Eugen-Cicero/dp/B000RG11QY

Would love to be there --- even though I can't quite imagine anyone subbing for Russell. He's so spot-on on the album, it begs for silly phrases like "accept no substitute" ... anyway, where it around the block from me, I'd definitely attend!

But then the Fantasy diligence was so much better than anything Concord ever did ...

sad news - will give the above a spin later

This sounds great, Alex! I'll make sure to order it soon!

couldn't find an app in the google or samsung stores ... the mobilve version of the website has that ROVI thing too, though, and does look rather differently from the standard site

App? Is there an actual app or just the website in the smartphone layout? I use that sometimes as well - again, no big issues at all. I wonder if those complaining still remember the old yellow-ish layout, c. 2000? Now that did suck, though it had some kind of charm.

hear, hear! those recordings are very important to me, too... Yes, 'Closeness' was an early purchase for me. Be nice to see 'The Golden Number' on CD/mp3 - I've never heard it. "The Golden Number" has been released on CD... I have a copy. It's an attractive gatefold package similar to the original vinyl release. I've got a regular jewel case edition last year ... just saw the digipack version in a shop recently.

Hm, actually I think searching is better than ever now - combined seaeches for artist and (partial) album titles never worked before ... and if it still doesn't, going via google does often help.

Too many, not nearly enough time ... just gave a first spin to the Tom Rainey one on Intakt - seems to be pretty good!

Just get ad blocker ... makes life so much easier It was my go-to-place on the internets for plenty of time, but nowadays often you get more accurate and complete info on discogs, wiki or of course on specialised discography pages. Allmusic is still visitied often, but the lack of meaningful reviews and inaccurate/messy info regarding line ups, recording dates (they keep mixing them with release dates) makes it bit of a nuisance. Some good reviews are to be found there, for sure though - Eugene Chadbourne for one, or this dude calling himself "arwulf arwulf".

discs 2-4 (the Artists House sessions w/Hank Jones and George Cables, the later - on most of two discs - with Charlie Haden)

some more obits: http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-charlie-haden-20140712-story.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/arts/music/charlie-haden-influential-jazz-bassist-is-dead-at-76.html

Oh damn no! This is extremely sad, words fail. Thank you so very, very much for a life full of wonderful music, Mr. Haden.

Looks like, yes. There are a few more Colpixes by Simone, good stuff! Wonder if there are any news regarding ownership of MPS?

Their international shipping is high (I don't know how high really), but it might be worth mentioning that discplus.ch has the three Django "season" boxes (containing all the volumes of their "Intégrale") at a very good price (roughly 25€ per box): Saison 1 - 1928-1938 (14 CD) Saison 2 - 1938-1947 (14 CD) Saison 3 - 1947-1953 (12 CD) in case the links don't work, go here and do a search for "Django saison": http://discplus.ch/ Turns out to be around 118 or 130€ delivered to the US (economy/priority shipping), 106 or 114€ to France or Germany ... not that much of a bargain then, but still not bad, I guess (shipping makes no difference between 2 or 3 of the boxes, for just 1 it's somewhat less, but still pricey ... and now, I couldn't help out, it would probably cost me as much to send them to the US as they charge - they obviously don't have one of those slave labour contracts with mail services the way big bad evil A has, so they're charging actual shipping costs).

I recently stumbled over this - I guess a consequence of EMI being part of the fold, too: There's one more: There might be more to come, I guess, but I can't seem to find any others so far.

r.i.p.

Guess so ... but they (the staff) should also answer emails. Once, when I had some oddity (my copy of a rather recent disc is printed upside down or rather glued together wrongly) in my hands, they did answer (but that didn't cost them any). Anyway, sorry to derail the thread.

(I'm still pissed at Mr. Stollman ... a friend ordered the Bud 3CD set recently, after I had been urging him to do so for a while ... turns out - for no good reason whatsoever - the package was declared as being of double the value or even more ... my friend had to pay effin' custom fees, nearly as much as the actual cost of the box ... but no one from ESP was fit to even reply to his mail ... would have been the least to offer him a freebie or two, but no answer whatsoever ... guess that's an answer too, namely telling customers to go eff themselves ... guess I'm done with ordering straight from ESP for the time being.)