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  1. A Quick Survey of Recordings: Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op.110

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    30 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

    Wow. 30 sets is a lot!  

    I'm jealous. :g

    Actually, 36 - below are the (almost) complete cycles I have (I was thinking of getting rid of some of them, but no one wants classical CDs anymore, so I might as well keep them):

    (listed chronologically, with recording dates)

    Wilhelm Kempff (Polydor, Grammophon; incomplete, 1925-1936, 1940-1943)

    Artur Schnabel (EMI; 1932-1937)

    Rudolf Serkin (RCA; incomplete, 1941-1977)

    Wilhelm Backhaus (Decca; 1950-1954)

    Wilhelm Kempff (DG; 1951-1956)

    Walter Gieseking (EMI; incomplete, 1951-1956)

    Solomon (EMI; incomplete, 1951-1956)

    Yves Nat (EMI; 1953-1955)

    Wilhelm Backhaus (Decca; incomplete, 1958-1969)

    Claudio Arrau (Philips; 1962-1966)

    Sviatoslav Richter (Philips and Melodiya; incomplete, 1963-1992)

    Wilhelm Kempff (DG; 1964-1965)

    Friedrich Gulda (Amadeo; 1967)

    Claude Frank (RCA; 1967-1969)

    Éric Heidsieck (EMI; 1967-1973)

    Bruce Hungerford (Piano Classics; incomplete, 1967-1976)

    Alfred Brendel (Philips; 1971-1978)

    Emil Gilels (DG; incomplete, 1972-1985)

    Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca; 1974-1982)

    Maurizio Pollini (DG; 1975-2014)

    Annie Fischer (Hungaroton, 1977-1978)

    Rudolf Buchbinder (Teldec; 1980-1982)

    Claudio Arrau (Philips; incomplete, 1984-1990)

    Stephen Kovacevich (EMI; 1991-2003)

    Alfred Brendel (Philips; 1992-1996)

    Richard Goode (Nonesuch; early 1990s)

    Andrea Lucchesini (Stradivarius; 1999-2001)

    Ronald Brautigam (BIS; 2003-2008)

    András Schiff (ECM; 2004-2006)

    Daniel Barenboim (Decca; 2005)

    Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi; 2005-2008)

    Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (Chandos; 2008-2014)

    François-Frédéric Guy (Zig-Zag Territoires; 2009-2012)

    Stewart Goodyear (Marquis; 2010-2012)

    Igor Levit (Sony; 2013, 2017-2019)

    Konstantin Lifschitz (2017-2019)

     

    53 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

    IIRC, I have Schnabel, Kempff 1, Wuhrer, Brendel 1, Gould and Rosen. Have probably disposed of a dozen.

    Wilhelm Kempff made his first recording of Op.110 in 1936, but I assume you mean his 1951 recording.

  3. Shipping delays

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted

    My USPS Int'l Priority Mail package from Colorado finally arrived today, after more than 4 weeks...

    3 hours ago, Brad said:

    I’m still awaiting two CDs from Japan that were shipped through the post office in early April. DHL is the best way to go these days. 

    I agree. I got several packages that only took a couple of days to get here via DHL - all within the EU.

  4. Shipping delays

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    I don't think anything is lost, just indefinitely delayed, especially packages that are shipped internationally. One shipment can get lost, maybe two, but so many, unlikely. I still think the air traffic problems are to blame. A package from Sweden that usually takes a few days recently took three weeks to arrive at my doorstep, and that's within the EU.

  6. Shipping delays

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    On 8-5-2020 at 0:49 AM, J.A.W. said:

    I'm still waiting for a package that was mailed by int'l priority mail from Colorado on April 24. It seems to be stuck at a USPS depot in San Francisco. No idea when it will get here, as there's hardly any transatlantic air traffic right now.

    Still waiting for that package... No tracking update since April 28.

  8. a Betty Carter Mosaic set??

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    11 hours ago, Late said:

    I missed out on all of these sets, but have collected Walker, Spann, and Hopkins on individual discs. Slightly off-topic (for a Betty Carter thread), but are there any recommendations for single disc overviews from Milburn and Brown? In other words, if you could only purchase one disc a piece from these two artists, what would you choose?

    Just sent you a PM.

  9. a Betty Carter Mosaic set??

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    1 hour ago, gmonahan said:

    The last one was the Rosemary Clooney CBS Radio Sessions. The Ella set was before that. There have been sets devoted to Crosby, Sarah Vaughan, Mildred Bailey, Dinah Washington, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee and June Christy, and the Four Freshmen, plus the Blues/R&B sets, so a number have been given over to vocalists.

     

     

     

    gregmo

    The Blues/R&B sets were the ones by T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn, Charles Brown and Otis Spann/Lightning Hopkins. Great sets, love them.

  15. LPs that have never made it into CD

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    59 minutes ago, colinmce said:

    I still can't quite believe that the two Dave Burns Vanguard LPs have never been on CD in any form, even in some Andorran configuration. Is that really true?

    I posted that list 15 years ago and in the meantime some of thiose albums have been reissued by Fresh Sound, but might be OOP by now.

  17. Chuck Berry R.I.P.

    in Artists

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    1 hour ago, Dave Garrett said:

    Hip-O also released a third set that went up to 1974, Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969 - 1974. Given the asking prices for the Hip-O sets now, if I didn't already have them and was looking to get a comprehensive set of Berry's recordings I'd probably opt for the big Bear Family box instead. I haven't heard it, but I've read generally positive things about it (although the mastering on some BF sets can be a contentious subject).

    Chuck Berry: Rock And Roll Music - Any Old Way You Choose It - The Complete Studio Recordings ... Plus! (16-CD & 2 Bücher)

    You're right, totally forgot about that third Hip-O set. Never got it, the material is not my cup of tea. The 1950s were Berry's prime years; the decline set in during the following decade, although he made a few fine recordings in the early 1960s. 

  21. Chuck Berry R.I.P.

    in Artists

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Brad said:

    From what I’ve read the Chess Box issued by MCA sounds a bit sanitized, although it’s still readily available. Back in 2007, Hip-O Select issued a box called Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode: His Complete 50s Chess Recordings, which received very good reviews. Of course, it’s sold out and a little pricey. 

    Universal also released You Never Can Tell: His Complete Chess Recordings 1960-1966 on their (now discontinued) Hip-O label. I have both sets, but don't like the sound very much, it's also too "sanitized" as you call it.

  25. LF: Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Mosaic set

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted · Edited by J.A.W.

    13 minutes ago, Д.Д. said:

    Yes, this I understood. But why? Is it complicated / expensive / cumbersome? One reasons why I am asking is that I sell stuff on Discogs occasionally, and I have the prices listed in euro. I offer the American buyers to pay in USD at interbank exchange rate (i.e. good rate) to my American bank account (set up through Transferwise - which is, as far as I am concerned, the best cross-currency payment solution today) - and they would invariably choose to pay in euro through PayPal loosing money on PayPal's screw-up exchange rate. I understand there is PayPal's seller protection aspect to it, but perhaps there are other reasons why bank transfers are not an option for Americans.           

    My buying and selling days with people outside the EU are long gone, not in the least because of the ridiculous overseas shipping rates these days.

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