Hoppy T. Frog

Mine too! Amazingly, it was offered by my cell phone provider.

A lot of classical SACDs are still being made by the indie labels (BIS, Harmonia Mundi, etc). The major labels have given up.

So I almost never buy off ebay anymore. I've been buying since 1998. The last two times I have been scammed for used CDs that are so esoteric (and not "collectible") that I wonder what is going on there. A few months ago I was scammed by someone selling used Mauricio Kagel CDs (what?!) and now apparently two Masaaki Suzuki Bach Cantata CDs. Both sellers had impeccable selling feedback. The most recent one I was informed by ebay that "the items were put up for sale by an unauthorized person" and that I should claim my money back from the Resolution Center. When I go to the Resolution Center, it tells me that I am too early to file for a claim. The email is 100% genuine, and I wnet to the website wihout clicking the link in the email. Meanwhile eBay's online "help" doesn't cover for such a situation, and their "customer Service" phone number has no humans on the other end. Has anyone else said "Fuck It, and You", to ebay recently?

I saw Andras Schiff do the 2nd Piano Concerto with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra last fall, and it was magical. I see that Schiff and Fischer have a cheap disc avaiable of all three concerti here: Arkiv Classical but I haven't gone for it yet, as I have versions of all or some of the concertos by Anda (on DGG and airchecks on Audite), Kocsis, Zimerman, and Bartok himself (on a Hungarton box set called "Recordings from Private Collections".

Had to miss it. Brad Linde is doing a lot of interesting programming there.

I thought this was going to be a "would you have done her back in the day" type of question.

I know that Naxos raised its wholesale prices.

In DC?

Tamla?! as is Tamla/Motown? Was she one of the Funk Brothers?

My Local, the Baltimore Symphony, is regressing from an interesting season this year (a semi-staged Jeanne D'arc Au Bucher by Honnegger being a highlight) to more conservative programming.

Jesus! I can't afford NOT to get it.

BBC Music (the magazine) is better anyway.

When Moms is right, he's really right. I always had a suspicion that Werner takes everything out of print so he can erase Pia Uhlinger's name off the next reissue.

Up-- I pledged. It's the least I can do for one of the greats. 44 days left to pledge.

I was at the same Washington gig Leeway was at, and it was a good 'un. I was there with my barely-jazz-tolerant brother and even he liked it. I missed the second set though, which I now regret.

That's basically what Uber-collector Joe Bussard does, as seen in the documentary "Desperate Man Blues".

Ben Johnston's String Quartets have been my first introduction to just intonation. Probably the most famous of them is his #5 (I think) with the incorporation of "Amazing Grace".

Andre Rieu. (that's the joke)

Big up to you for this. What I've read about Gerhard sounds like an interesting body of work.

These from Ace look like the ticket: Johnny Otis story Vol. 2 Johnny Otis Story Vol. 1

That's how it usually worked. Agreed on their classical selection as well. About DC area stores--I've lived in the area for 10 years, and have never checked out Politics and Prose (not on the metro)until yesterday--but I was surprised to see a small, but well chosen classical CD selection there, with lots of imports.

Are there any anthologies that give a good overview of Johnny Otis' work? Perhaps spmething from our good friends at Ace/Kent?

Just by sheer release volume alone, Anthony Braxton.

"Rockit"-era Herbie Hancock with the Birth of the Cool Band, but JJ Johnson replaced by an elderly New Orleans busker without any teeth.

Great classical selection, too. You don't find that any more.