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Yeah, they really fleeced the preorders on this one!

I have a new favorite set of Mozart piano sonatas: Lili Kraus from 1954. I am listening to this on Spotify right now from the Music and Arts release, but I just bought from amazon.fr a set with her complete recordings between 1933 and 1958, including these and many other gems, among which Mozart and Beethoven violin sonatas with Szymon Goldberg and Willi Boskovsky: http://www.amazon.fr/Lili-Kraus-Parlophone-Ducretet-Thomson-Discophiles/dp/B00LLHG94W/

Went to the opera last night here at the University: Ravel double header with "L'heure espagnole" and "L'enfant et les sortileges". Student performers mostly and it was a lot of fun; they're going to do "La boheme" in a couple of months, looking forward to that one too.

Don't skip Furtwangler.

Both coming out the same day. The Sony box is here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00NFLVFFK

Richter Columbia and RCA box coming out in January:

It's on Spotify too.

Starless box 91.81 sterling shipped to Canada at Amazon UK.

The Seon Collection 119 loonies at amazon.ca

Over at amazon uk the Cyrille and Murray vol. 2 CAM Jazz box sets are 13.69 quid right now.

My orders got cancelled except the Verdi box from amazon uk which has been shipped.

Bogdan, let's take it from top then. Music maestro, please! Offering: Live at Temple University offers further evidence of the catastrophe of the last phase of John Coltrane’s work. no comment. “Last” rather than “late” because he became ill and died too suddenly (on July 17, 1967), too early, to have properly entered a late period. He was forty. In any other field of activity that would be a desperately short life. Only in jazz could it be considered broadly in line with actuarial norms. Henry Purcell (1659-1695)-- age 36 Giovanni Pergolesi (1710-1736)-- age 26 Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791)-- age 35 Franz Schubert (1797-1828)-- age 31 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)-- age 38 Chopin (1810-1849)-- age 39 George Gershwin (1898-1937)-- age 38 etc etc i'll stop before World War II but hello, compare like to like, or would bringing musicians of similar historical stature into the conversation further reveal the author's idiocy rather than faux 'authority'? "Actuarial" is bullshit diversion, like he's about to offer a deeply researched socio-aesthetic discourse... right. I'm not suggesting there isn't AMPLE room for aesthetic criticism of Coltrane-- if someone wants to go that route, hey, the narrow road is open-- but Dyer is an arrogant simp. I think you misunderstand the use of "catastrophe" here. It is in the sense from the Adorno quote down the page (“In the history of art late works are the catastrophe”), and it's not to be taken in it's simplistic pejorative sense meaning something "awfully bad". I agree with you about the age analysis, he's wrong about that. Oh, and I like this post much better than the first one in the thread

Are you guys serious??... I read that piece and it makes some interesting points, even though I may not agree with it, but someone somewhere took the time to listen to, think, and write something about what he heard. I'd hate to see a Twitter or Facebook type mob mentality take over here when somebody expresses in civilised terms their view of music. And btw, I loved the photo at the top of that page!

Preorder up on amazon uk for 78 pounds, which turns into 68 pounds shipped to Canada. Gotta have it!

Now we have a winner - mine weighs about 24 lbs: So what's the deal with these, can you transfer the files to your computer?

My Boulez box has shipped!

I finally bought this box from amazon uk when they made me an offer I could not refuse

I usually capture my cat and use one of her claws ... I don't want to know where you put your ear...

But will the liner notes be in English or German? I doubt they make any other versions besides English.

Heads up for a good price on the complete set from amazon.de, shipped to Canada for 81 euro: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00MXILU3S/

No Mangelsdorff?

Itunes?... I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

Spotify has the Charlie Parker "Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes" from Savoy Jazz, and both Relaxing at Camarillo and especially Cool Blues sound clearly better, with more high frequency content in the horns and cymbals. And, indeed, they are noisier as well. Maybe the Mosaic samples are still poorly encoded?

I believe the samples on the Mosaic site have been changed; sorry, even now they have a processed quality to them that I don't quite like. Short samples of the Parker material from the Fremeaux edition I found online sound more natural, as does my JSP set. Does anyone have more info about what is the source of the transfers for this new edition? By crediting the producers of that set, Mosaic seem to imply that it is the Japanese edition previously published. These are arguably some of the most important recordings in jazz; I hope someday someone can come up with better transfers of whatever original sources are still in existence.

I rest my case