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I loved the part about the Gulag and about ethnic cleansing and its valued tradition from tsarism to present ... as for the "thought", its gist was likely: some dude built Petersburg ... some other dude built Sochi.

Very glad to hear Daley is still on the schedule! Love the first Carter/Bradford, will be all over the second - and the Tapscott, too!

Complete, that is ... I'd be in for that, not for any of the others ... although having these in original shape (edits back in place) might be tempting (if there is any such option, I guess it would be Japanese?)

Just in case: the BluSpec has the regular-length disc two of "Agartha".

Hey, my remark was directed at myself this time, no need for bad feelings

Would be good to know if the terrific and huge booklet of the original edition is included here as well .... it's one of the finest ever, I think, would be a true loss!

Last time I looked, "The Shape of Jazz to Come" was still by Ornette Coleman?!? I'm not sure which Atlantic reissue program you refer to. I have around 10 Japanese Atlantics 60th Anniversary issues - WPCR 2xxxxx, they all sound excellent. I wasn't aware that these issues were thought to suffer from loudness/compression etc. I try not to read these threads....I only get anxious Good move. These threads can make you crazy. Yeah, proof above

Yes, good read, great guy, Herbie!

Yeah, just wanted to say I heard ol' Vlad is all crazy and geared up about them .... http://avaxnews.net/appealing/Welcome_Sochi_2014_The_Dark_Side_of_Sochi_Olympics_by_Artist_Vasily_Slonov.html

Yeah, would be easier on the bank account, too

I'll read from the sidelines, but don't have anything to contribute there yet ... but yeah, go ahead!

just in case anyone stumbles over it ... I've got some of the Birdland material discussed here in this Ember 4CD set (there's a Charly one, too - not quite identical it seems, different cover, too ... and the Ember was also out in two 2CD sets ... don't think there was ever a Vol. 2): Great set!

I guess you didn't then ... but it fits (some) Karajan like a glove

as for Scherchen, there's Tahra ... they have their own website but it's hard to navigate (21 pages of available releases) ... look here: http://www.musicandarts.com/Tahra.html here's the website: http://tahra.com/index.php I've actually ordered one from Music & Arts that was unavailable everywhere else and it got delivered pretty fast ...

Yes indeed - great word! As for "praxis", in german it's most common ... a doctor's office (what do you actually call that?) is called "Praxis", meanings 1b and 2 are common usage (not 1a, I think).

That sounds intriguing! I've not heard much Prokofiev yet, mostly the violin concertos and some chamber music (sonatas, arrangements/encores) ... don't even have any symphonies I actually went for (No. 1 by Toscanini and Kurtz, and that No. 5 by Szell - picked up in some large coffins or some mish-mash cheapo-sets). But I love that word "eupeptic" (didn't ever hear it before) - even more so in relation to (often) fake-grave Karajan

I guess so ... but I don't know my way around classical music quite that well yet, so I don't know whose takes on what I'll always be interested in. That needs lots of time. Anyway, just got the shipping notice for the Horenstein box (also have his "Lieder von der Erde" on the way, that BBC disc).

Well, it would be easier if actually I knew what I wanted

Still not sure about buying the Sawallisch, but for "Elias" alone I should ... then there's also this sucker, I paid like five times as much for half of its contents shortly before it arrived: it's been dirt-cheap ever since it was out (22 € at amazon.it), yet I've not bought it (having already the Chopin - or much of it -, Schumann, Schubert, Debussy and Encores)

Oh, it will take me years probably to make it through it all once ... still haven't started with the Ansermet box at all. And no problem, didn't take your comment negatively at all - I know where you're coming from and understand that position very well. I've got lots of Beethoven and some Brahms, but not much of the others you mention (well, lots of their violin conertos, but ...) This one, but I think it might have been mentioned - looks like the most interesting of these: goes for 28 € at the moment: http://www.amazon.it/The-Art-Wolfgang-Sawallisch-Wolfang/dp/B00D10ITAE/

You've been in the business longer than me ... I'm through in some areas I feel - not as far as listening goes, but I don't need more recordings of stuff ... but symphonic is still mostly new to me. So yeah, I plucked that day indeed

ended where Gus Johnson went out yesterday (disc 4) - now discs 5-8

I think I read (somewhere here, where else) that Vol. 1 didn't sell well enough so the follow-up(s) were shelved. There were to be two more? That much more material? What a missed opportunity! Guess people prefer to buy the seventeenth reissue of some Miles or BN classic before trying Steve White. Maybe they're right, what do I know ...

There's some Staier I love and plenty I enjoy but don't consider "great", but the Mozart sonatas I've heard just don't work (have some concertos, too - but not listened to them yet)

Very nice one indeed! Too bad there never was a second volume ... I didn't manage to snatch up a few Fantasy discs containing some more Nocturne material while they were easy to find ...