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as far as classical goes, off the top of my head: Bartók/Szgeti playing the "Kreutzer Sonata" Gulda playing the well-tempered piano Arrau playing Chopin's Nocturnes Rubinstein playing Mozart's K 491 and Schubert's D 960 Schnabel playing Beethoven's sonatas ... and D 960 Rubinstein playing Mozart's piano quartets Michel Portal playing Mozart's clarinet concerto Ginette Neveu playing the Brahms violin concert Ferras and Barbizet playing various sonatas (Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Franck) Samson François playing nearly any Chopin Marcelle Meyer playing Debussy Blandine Rannou playing Rameau Gardiner conducting Mozart's da Ponte operas and the Magic Flute Fricsay conducting Mozart's c minor mass Kathleen Ferrier singing english songs (mostly that one unacompanied one that Terence Davies made such wonderful use of in one of his cinematic poems) Gardiner's recording of Monteverdi's "Orfeo" Janet Baker singing Bach and Schubert Hans Hotter singing Bach's cantata BWV 82 "Ich habe genug" Hilary Hahn's recording of the Mendelssohn violin concerto Maria Callas' "Tosca" and some of the arias she did in her studio recitals (the coloratura arias album!) Natalie Dessay singing the second aria of the queen of the night in William Christie's recording of the Magic Flute Glenn Gould's recording Bach's two- and three-part interventions Stern's recording of Mozart's K 364 (with Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim conducting) Ida Haendel and Vladimir Ashkenazy's recording of the third Enescu sonata Szigeti's recording of the Bach violin solo partitas and sonatas Rubinstein/Szeryng/Fournier doing Brahms' piano trios Tragicomedia's CD of "Canterine Romane" by Rossi I feel like this list is still way too short - but then it shows how intense the past around 15 months of listening to classical for the very fist time in any degree of seriosity were ...

Very sorry to read this, BeBop. No prayer or mumbo jumbo available from my side, I'm afraid, but keeping you in my thoughts.

Happy Birthday!

Gee ... you just can't believe anyone actually enjoying Schnabel, can you? I get a kick ouf of Schnabel

dammit, did all the work collecting images, but of course it was way too many ... so I posted the list here, in no particular order: http://ubu-space.blogspot.ch/2013/10/albums-that-shook-my-world-excluding.html fun thing to do!

But Eric had to show him how to swing. Man. Oh, I love that one! Also this one's not bad: (reissued in that short-lived Capitol vocals series)

Never been fully convinced by any of the music I herard of his so far, I'm afraid. Too easy, somehow, for lack of a better word.

Super high? Hope no one OD's, though it would match all the bebop nicely ...

Okay, thanks! So what's an SHM-CD anyway? Not that I'd hear any difference, but ...

Not sure what's "unreleased" here ... certainly the Blue Train and Moanin' tracklist match well-known widely available reissues. But ... are the "Out to Lunch" alternates new? 6. Hat und Beard (Alternate Take) 7. Something Sweet Something Tender (Alternate Take) Guess I'd be in for that, but probably the three days window of availabilty will pass before I even notice

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Yes, yes, yes! That's a wonderful album!

Not sure what's in there ... but I just spent about the same amount getting a copy of "La Tarantella" (and already have "All' Improvviso"). Considering everything I've heard by Pluhar so far has been at least very good (some of it excellent, and most of it very thought-provoking, too), I'm interested: pre-order for 18.72 € at amazon.de http://www.outhere-music.com/en/albums/l-arpeggiata-christina-pluhar-the-complete-alpha-recordings-alpha-818

I would've loved to have been around for this. I feel like the 90s and early to mid 00s must have been a great time to have been a fan of reissues, Mosaic or otherwise. Guess they were ... I "joined" around 1996/97 and after a few years felt like I had arrived some six or seven years late (like, nearly all Blue Notes were out on CD around 1988/89 a first time, some never re-appeared afterwards, or for a few weeks in Japan). The two Vee Jay boxes (Shorter/Morgan and Kelly/Chambers, both six discs) disappeared overnight (as did the Stuff Smith Verve) for reasons never disclosed, as far as I know. Those are wonderful boxes, for sure, and I'm very happy to have them!

John Eliot Gardiner Collection - 23€ at amazon.it paid twice as much and thought it was a bargain still... details here: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4791044

There's a four page introduction in English (rather lots of words in small prints), but no liners in the booklet. The cardboard sleeves have the original french notes on the back, if there were any (several have just catalogue listings/adverts).

it's nice but not all that great, I think ... it was the only "Original Vogue Masters" release in red instead of black - and the disc combined it with another ten inch album that the box weirdly omits again: needless to say, it's OOP: http://www.amazon.fr/Argentinians-Paris-Schiffrin-Astor-Piazzola/dp/B0002VYE40/

I'd definitely say so, yes!

The *'s mean those were remastered for this box. And ya know what? I'll buy 73 volumes of the bootleg series if they stay in the 60's and early-mid 70's with it, 'cuz it's Bob Dylan, and he was fascinating until he lost his muse around 'Street Legal'. Oh, I see! Interesting about "Street Legal" being among those, there was new remaster of that one some years ago, wasn't there? And of course I guess it's safe to assume they will re-use the new remaster of "Self Portrait" as it was on the recent box. I'd be all for more Bootlegs Series, for sure, also from teh 80s and the 90s ... "Tell Tale Sings" is wonderful! And put me among those who consider "Time Out of Mind" amongst his very best, too!

Ah, interesting, I had similar questions as BBS - but I'll not get this one since I've got all three JiP as well as the Vogue discs and I think that's about as much as I really need from Byas' European recordings of that vintage. I'd be all for a complete official set though, but I guess Mosaic would have long done it if they had ever planned to do it at all ... and if they had, no doubt the - long OOP - Definitive sets would have put their plans to full stop. Too bad, really!

That's very good to hear!

Jazz VIP? What's that, the improved version of Jazz Lips?