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I've not even gotten started with the French ... no rush around here, this all needs so much time, even more so for newbies like me
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I gave in ... which surely comes as no surprise to y'all
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And that's the reason it was never reissued, to my knowledge (there should even be ample bonus material) I agree!
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Can't blame Ricko if he's pooped after that ride! Looking forward very, very much to this set!
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Never thought I would see it in my lifetime
king ubu replied to Hot Ptah's topic in Miscellaneous Music
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Okay, I feel safe now, with your additional info (that does not match what I hold in my hands) AND with the official Sony statements I dug up
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I'd say yes ... I've fallen in love with a lot of what I've played so far - Chopin and even more so Brahms, the stuff with Heifetz/Feuermann (that's obviously duplicated between the two boxes) ... I've not listened to many of th huge number of concertos included, but the best of those I did play (Mozart's KV 491 with Krips) are glorious. What I didn't really like too much is the Beethoven sonatas (but there aren't that many) ... on the other hand, the Schubert is great (a late recording of D 960), and so is the Schumann. But I'm biased, I just love that guy, beyond his musical legacy that is, find his biography immensely impressing ... so you might be better off asking around some more. Also it's gone anyway, isn't it?
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http://www.jaschaheifetz.com/news/ Case looks clear enough to me ... box turning up in high-brow stores, people there being aware of Sony re-pressing, official website announcing a limited re-run ... not that this means there are no Chinese boots, but I feel pretty safe mine isn't. it's also announced on the German Sony site here, as Feb 2014 release: http://klassik.sonymusic.de/Jascha-Heifetz/Jascha-Heifetz/P/2375141 And if you select Heifetz from the artist list on the US site, you get redirected to the official Heifetz site mentioned in the quote: http://www.sonymasterworks.com/artists?page=2 Case closed, I assume.
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Got to dig them up ... or rather got to invest some serious listening time into Gullin's music some day - but can't do any of that right now, I'm afraid, no time at hand.
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funny new avatar btw, yesterday I finally ordered the Foster, this thread being back on top reminded me of it
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Because it's just re re-print, I guess ... seems they even went to Guiness Book of Records (that's a silliness I never understood). Coming up: pre-oder is 60.46 € at amazon.it: http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00J498SOI/ Also, the big Richter box is down to 53 € currently (and in stock): http://www.amazon.it/Solo-Recordings-33-Richter-Sviatoslav/dp/B00GYHSYW4/
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Okay, so I thought ... I have about six of those Gullins here (Vols. 1-4 and one later volume, bought by chance when it was cheap ... this goes too far off-topic here, but how complete is that Dragon series, all in all? I guess having them all will be good enough for me, eventually ... I also just double checked: two Gullin discs in that recent series of Warner Japan/European releases, "Baritone Sax" and "Lars Gullin Swings".
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Weird selection indeed, but I guess I can live on without the twor or three I don't have. What about those Gullins - aren't those sessions part of the Dragon series? I'm aware of some Atlantic albums but never really had a closer look at his discography and assumed those were sessions leased or something.
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found this - maybe they don't know either, but hey ... http://www.jaschaheifetz.com/news/ Case looks clear enough to me ... box turning up in high-brow stores, people there being aware of Sony re-pressing, official website announcing a limited re-run ... not that this means there are no Chinese boots, but I feel pretty safe mine isn't.
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This still bothers me ... how does your box look? Do the discs have all the Sony numbers and stuff included? Would they really bother to reproduce all that, down to every tiny detail (the black-in-black print around the fake-label on the top of the discs, for instance)? And would they find ways to be distributed by real stores and serious shops like JPC? or would that indeed be re-sellers and ebay?
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I don't see that romanticism v. mysticism thing either ... I mean doesn't it boil down to love anyway? If mysticism or whatever religious or spiritual thing remains theoretical or ideological, I don't need it at all, I look at it and throw it in the garbage can (the one on top of which Dizzy wrote "A Night in Tunisia", I bet) ... when it's real, gets into life and down to earth, isn't love what it's all about? And doesn't love come in different shapes and colours? Whoever the "me and you" are, it's the essence. Why separate and divide when it belongs together? Does that sound like I'm a darn mysticist? Well, so be it
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And they would be sold in local shops, too, via official channels? As for smells .... the book smells just like the Toscanini one does (and that one I'd bought locally here ... it had been standing around (sealed) in the shop for a few months before I did. So no, I guess it smells "new" but not like "just printed".
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Are you serious? I saw it in a local store, had a chat with one of the guys there whose face brightened up when he told me: "Yes, they re-printed it in February!" (I was there a couple of weeks back) and then said the original edition had been gone pretty fast and he guessed this re-print would sell out pretty fast as well. If it's a counterfeit, it's brilliantly produced - totally comparable to any other similar Sony/Popmarket set using these "thicker" cardboard cases. It's made in the EU (or so it says) and amazon.com does not seem to sell it, but that's not so rare, after all (also Sony produces all their recent sets in Poland ... doesn't specify so on this one, but as I said, it carries the 2010 info - no changes whatsoever, I assume, to the original/first run. Also, of course it was printed recently ... how do you think this works? "Say, let's produce 200'000 of this, deliver the first 20'000 to the stores and keep the rest until the end of the world! Maybe, only maybe, we will sell a few thousand more four years later, but only maybe, remember?" - sounds like a great plan
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I'm not sure that's all there is ... I see how you (and many others) arrive at that point, but I'm not convinced the story ends there.
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there was a thread about the Hatto hoax here:
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To nitpick a bit, Guy Pedersen is French.
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Universal Music Italia box sets
king ubu replied to Fer Urbina's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Not sure at all, but might not the Verve Master Editions - where they exist with Brownie and Billie - be more to your taste? With the Evans, there's so much good stuff in the box that's impossible to finde otherwise, it really is a no-brainer if you don't have the ol' rusty one. -
It's not exactly cheap, but still I guess it's a bargain ... the Jascha Heifetz Album Collection is back since February: Best price currently: http://www.amazon.de/Complete-Album-Collection-Jascha-Heifetz/dp/B00467EKKO/ http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Jascha-Heifetz-The-Complete-Album-Collection/hnum/1140039 Just got mine from the later vendor (since I know they know how to pack heavy stuff - got the Rubinstein box from them, too, the Furtwängler coffin as well, all arrived in perfect shape).