[Pipe cleaner.]

I think it's mostly breath condensation.

[Covid Vaccination Poll Update]

If it was engineered in a lab it gives an idea of what exactly they're doing in there; you and me will probably never know either way, but I'm sure some level of government knows pretty well what happened.

[Mal Waldron "Free At Last" ECM Extended Anniversary Edition]

Presto has the hi res 24/96 download for 1/3 of the price of the 2lp set.

[Remember those PD jazz boxes?]

Here's some insight into the arcane structure of one of the big three:

https://www.universalmusic.com/universal-music-classics-jazz-announces-new-global-structure/

Interesting off-handed reference to Blue Note at the end. BN seems to fit in the Capitol Music Group like shoes on the fish pictured above.

[Remember those PD jazz boxes?]

6 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I was thinking the same thing the other day, actually. I would not be the market for it with jazz like I am the classical boxes, but...yeah. I love those classical boxes, especially the Sony Classics ones that are, like, 20 LPs on 20 CDs, with original LP artwork and the oddball extra cut or two brought in along the way for 40-50 bucks...hell yeah!

Go big or go home!

[Remember those PD jazz boxes?]

The weird thing I don't quite understand is that, while classical music and jazz seem to be just about neck and neck in sales and overall consumption ( at the bottom), we seem to be enjoying a golden age of classical reissues including many obscure recording artists besides the mega-boxes that seem to take more and more space in my house, while in jazz it's crickets... Not sure how many albums Blue Note has released in its history, but if they would put out everything in a series of 100 cd boxes, I'd be interested.

[Remember those PD jazz boxes?]

They came out on labels like Avid, Enlightenment, etc. Looking at some of these sets on amazon.ca I noticed something strange: they have in the "Manufacturer" and "Label" fields Universal Music, or Universal Music Canada:

https://www.amazon.ca/Classic-Albums-1954-1960-Clifford-Brown/dp/B00PCWGAFU

https://www.amazon.ca/Complete-Albums-Collection-1956-64-5CD/dp/B0124KY5RC/

https://www.amazon.ca/Twelve-Classic-Albums-Eric-Dolphy/dp/B00NW6KONW/

Is this a case of if you can't beat them join them?

 

[Complete Miles Davis on Columbia available]

If you missed out on this, it seems to be in stock for a reasonable price at amazon.de:

https://www.amazon.de/Miles-Davis/dp/B002EOF7U8/ref=pd_sim_36?pd_rd_w=j8b66&pf_rd_p=9a7fe8f3-0fa4-47a4-8b98-93a5088bcc79&pf_rd_r=QHFYGMQVW3TFJYWXHG97&pd_rd_r=1ecaf68e-ee42-4c89-80ba-4dd4d24edbf6&pd_rd_wg=uFsbR&pd_rd_i=B002EOF7U8&psc=1

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

Elly Ney from 1956:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HxuHEr8mHo

[Return Of The Film Corner Thread]

[America unleashed]

Statue destroying has a long tradition:

[Classical New Releases]

On 2/15/2020 at 8:50 PM, Marzz said:

For anyone interested in downloads, 7digital offer this set in 24bit (that's a good thing right?) for about 15 bucks!! I normally prefer physical product but for that price have been enjoying it since it was released in early January.

Another very inexpensive download was the Noseda Shostakovich 4 (thanks David, for mentioning it above).

Speaking of download sites I've found out about many new releases there (even if I purchase a cd elsewhere). For example, Chandos offer product from other labels and are seemingly up to date with new releases. Not quite an all-in-one shop, but they do have the labels that I'm particularly interested in such as Alpha, Albany, Glossa, Naxos and so on. No harmonia mundi unfortunately and no majors such as DG (fortunately ).

https://www.chandos.net/newreleases

I also suscribe/visit the specific label/s that I'm interested in - harmonia mundi, Bridge Records, Eloquence Australia (archival releases only), etc. 

Problem with all these new releases is finding the time to listen!!

A couple that I've enjoyed recently are the Mozart Vol.2 (Faust/Melkinov) on harmonia and Miklos Spanyi - Vol.39 of the C.P.E. Bach solo keyboard music (BIS)

  

Great, thank you!!!

[Classical New Releases]

4 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

ludwig van
eethoven
uartets

And the award for bad design goes to ...

BTW, where does one learn of new classical releases? IMO presto and arkiv don't do a very good job of presenting that info.

https://www.talkclassical.com/28254-new-releases.html

This thread in the Talk Classical forum stays on top of these things pretty well.

[Classical New Releases]

 

Preorder at HMV Japan with a release date of April 20; available right now on Tidal. The Beethoven Quartet played from the 30's to the 70's, these recordings are from the late 60's and early 70's, and somehow they sound like a single musician playing all the instruments at the same time. For me this is the greatest Beethoven quartet cycle ever recorded, very happy it's finally available!

[What Classical Music Are You Listening To?]

[Schubert 960]

Also Afanassiev on ECM.

So what were Badura-Skoda and his wife doing, return off center pressings? 

[Mosaics you’re still on the hunt for]

Miles Davis Complete 1963-64 Columbia recordings, the vinyl set. Seems to be quite rare now.

 

[Ingmar Bergman's Cinema]

The mother (or father) of all box sets!... Ordered instantly.

 

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema

[Coltrane: Both Directions At Once (lost album)]

Ordered the deluxe vinyl edition. 11383 sounds very good!

[Confirmation on Teddy Wilson and Mosaic update]

The reality is that the material that Mosaic tends to issue is de facto public domain by now, for better or worse. On top of it, LP sized boxes filled with cd's might have worked 20 years ago, but not so much now. Would it be impossible for them to licence some of this material for high resolution transfers and put them on blu ray discs? I would be very interested.

[What Classical Music Are You Listening To?]

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

[Yes]

They could also do this:

 

[MLB 2016 Season Thread Of Discussions]

Holy cow, Cubs win the World Series!!!

[YEN 200.000 (=USD 1.900+) ....]

Contains a pure LP from the DSD master...It don't get no purer than that!