J.A.W.

Posting pictures and quoting posts with IE11/Windows 7 is still not possible. When I try to post a picture, the browser freezes immediately. I'm using Firefox 25.0.1 as an alternative, but not being able to use IE11 is a nuisance.

Not anymore, the recording is now owned by Universal.

The versions I have are The Seasons (Die Jahreszeiten) by John Eliot Gardiner, the English Baroque Soloists, various singers and the Monteverdi Choir (Archiv 2CD-set) and The Creation (Schöpfungsmesse) by Richard Hickox, Collegium 90 and various singers (Chandos). They're both on my sale list, as religious works are not really my cup of tea. [edit] Gardiner recorded Die Jahreszeiten twice, both for Archiv. His later recording is often preferred.

I think it was.

Just noticed this thread. All the best and I hope your wife will have a full recovery.

Kevin Gray's "solo" masterings are excellent - he did Analogue Productions' John Coltrane impulse! hybrid SACDs, to name but a few. Gray's Cohearent Audio: http://www.cohearent.com/; his comment on loudness: http://www.cohearent.com/a-note-about-cd-loudness/

Thanks. The volume levels of the Hoffman/Gray hybrid Blue Note SACDs are very low and the masterings are very "polite" or laid-back. They could have been a bit louder and I prefer the more "direct" Alan Yoshida masterings on the Audio Wave Blue Note XRCDs, which are excellent.

I was wondering about that too.

Sad news.

U.S. residents usually don't pay tax on small packages from overseas. They just store what you ordered and from whom and when on some NSA hard disk drive.

U.S. residents usually don't pay tax on small packages from overseas.

Er ... how many more smilies would one have to insert to make it clear that is is not a matter of criticising but just of poking a little fun? That's why I said "implicitly or otherwise"; whatever you want to call it, it was criticism.

I think we should stop criticising moderators, implicitly or otherwise. We all know by now that they can never get it right...

I got the P-Vine Elmore James box that was remastered and re-released a few years ago and I was shocked by the sound: it was very harsh and pumped up compared to the same material I have on American CDs. Awful. I couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

I agree with your suggestion, that would be the correct thread title.

(Although I admit I didn't know about this Dootone thread when I posted it.) And you did throw Dootone and Crown together too. so the moderator who locked that thread could re-open it and rename it so we have our Crown thread ... Or, since Crown is already being discussed here, he could rename this thread

That Bruno Weil HIP set is great, and so are the incomplete Christopher Hogwood set, the Trevor Pinnock and Frans Brüggen sets with the "Sturm und Drang" symphonies and the Sigiswald Kuijken sets with the "Paris" symphonies. The incomplete Roy Goodman set is also very good, though it is marred by way too reverberant acoustics. Colin Davis' "big-band Haydn" sets with the "London" symphonies are my favourites in the non-HIP dept. Antál Doráti's complete non-HIP set is an early favourite of mine. The Freiburger Barockorchester and Pinnock made excellent recordings of symphonies 6-8. All in my opinion, of course

The Dootone label is owned by Ace. There's an earlier thread about this:

Sorry to hear this.

Glad I don't have a car anymore

15 years now (it was released in 1998). Seems to be a very slow seller with an infinite license. It's a limited edition of 7,500 - and that includes the long OOP LP edition.

With the Select series now being a thing of the past, you might want to rethink your "only Selects" policy

Sad news. I was not a fan, but did like some of his stuff.

That's a steal. Great set. LPs or CDs?