J.A.W.

Correct.

The CDs are only £2 each (about $3.20 or €2.45 at today's exchange rates), but the minimum order is 10 CDs and you can only order 10 or 20 or 30 etc. CDs.

I've ordered many times from Allyourmusic (they're also selling on Amazon) and never had a problem. They usually take their time before shipping anything, but they're reliable.

Why all the caps?? No need to shout.

I can't speak for Chuck, of course, but if I remember correctly he once posted that he didn't like Gilels in Beethoven. Anyway, Gilels' unfinished cycle (DG) is one of my favourites, along with the earlier Kempff (mono, DG). Annie Fischer (Hungaroton) is an acquired taste in Beethoven, though I like what she does, and I also like most of Solomon's interpretations (Testament, not EMI); Schnabel (Naxos, not the earlier, heavily no-noised EMI set) is hors concours.

Sad news. Way too young at 62.

Congratulations, Jim.

Well, what do you expect when the name Wynton Marsalis crops up here... (I can think of a few other names as well)

The Merrill is now gone.

Althought that is historically correct, as you might know, since Haydn was rather late in acquiring a fortepiano. What I found satisfying, too, is a well played clavichord, if you like the sound of that instrument. BTW - I never judge the sound of historic keyboard recordings from sound samples - MP3s are too LO-FI for the complex sound spectrum of these instruments. I agree. However, I have listened to fortepiano recordings on my system a few years ago (Ronald Brautigam in the Mozart sonatas is one of them) and I didn't like what I heard. It might all be historically correct, but that doesn't mean I have to like it

Why all the capitals?

Charles Tolliver's Mosaic Select and Helen Merrill's Mosaic Single Casa Forte are now in Mosaic's Last Chance category.

For those who are looking for his Chet Baker bio: the author's name is Jeroen de Valk - see my post #3.

In this case it isn't

The Dutch author's name is Jeroen de Valk (Valk is Dutch for falcon).

Britain's Jerry Sandusky? The Independent: Jimmy Savile scandal

MG, why not do an internet search? I found this, this and this - and there's more.

As I said on the thread about this series I got Lou Donaldson's Midnight Sun and it sounds fine. No problems with loudness and harshness.

check post #6. Oops, sorry, missed that one. Try this: Or this: I meant the singing

Bill Brimfield obit

Miss AM Can't say I'm impressed...

Sorry to hear this. I guess Fred Anderson Quartet, Vol.1 (Asian Improv), also with Brimfield, is no longer regularly available. It goes for ridiculous prices on Amazon...

Check out the Meister Konzerte box. It's packed with tons of wonderful historical recordings with perfectly judged restoration. I've heard that the Furtwangler box has great sound too. Membran has some excellent titles, particularly the ones from the past year or so. As I said, to each their own. I'd like to leave it at that. Correct and I was the one who said that, mentioning excellent remasterings of EMI recordings by Naxos as an example. Well, I started record collecting in the late 1950s and CD collecting in 1995 and already have a very wide selection to choose from, so you don't have to advise me. I'll avoid those public-domain labels as much as I can. And as I said earlier I disagree with you about sound quality; it varies from disc to disc, not only the masterings but also the recordings themselves - some are great, some are so-so, some are awful. One of the problems with many "modern" classical recordings is the use of multi-miking, which can introduce all sorts of distortion. We'll probably never agree, so let's leave it at that here too.

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