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I like it quite some ... don't know his Prestige albums too well yet (only have "Back Country Suite" and the "Greatest Hits" compilation), but these Columbias are fine in my opinion!

Happy Birhtday, Marcel! :party:

Have you ever tried any Feldman in the meantime? The CD with "Rothko Chapel" on it pictured further up in this thread might indeed be a good entrance point. For me, the piano works are most fascinating at this time - the hatNOW CD "Early Piano Works" and the "Last Pieces" CD (plenty of duplication between them but different pianists - Steffen Schleiermacher on the former, Stéphane Ginsburgh on the latter -, different approaches, and the later one adds a long and great late piece ... and just in case, those "last pieces" are early ones, really!).

The Chopin was reissued separately again - still need it. Those are the currently available (French) versions: I've only heard Cziffra with some Chopin on a pair of LPs on Philips ("L'extraordinaire" has a mix of various pieces, some mighty fine, then I have the Philips LP "Chopin: Polonaisen", german edition) but those are interesting enough that I want to get the 5CD set, too! These are older 5CD editions: http://www.amazon.com/Chopin-Works-Piano/dp/B000FOTHDC/ http://www.amazon.com/Chopin-uvres-pour-piano-Box/dp/B00008LLIS/ And this here the 10CD set combining both (I assume): http://www.amazon.com/Chopin-Liszt-Valses-Polonaises-Euvres-Piano-Georges-Cziffra/dp/B001BSH26A/

That's the early 1956/57 recordings, yes? The ones I've heard are the 1972-75 ones (from The Piano Collection). I just bought the early recordings as part of the french 2010 5CD set, which I assume to be a straight reissue of the box you pictured. Still figuring out recording details for that one though, the info in the booklet isn't that exact.

sh, don't tell anyone

I picked up an LP of Brahms' first and third trio of the late 60's Suk Trio (Katchen, Starker) - still mighty fine! Guess I need to find that Supraphon 2CD set, thanks for mentioning it, moms!

Great stuff! Yeah! About half of this weeks's listening was dedicated to that Liszt Piano Collection 10 CD box, and Cziffra (as well as Ogdon's sonata) is outstanding!

Cziffra with Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies"!

That IS the 1956 Moscow recording - and it sounds mighty good to my ears! It says "MONO Recordings" in the booklet, so it shouldn't suffer from issues the reprocessed stereo editions do. Sorry, forget to say I'm talking about the DG 2CD set - don't know the larger edition. And I agree with Larry that this trio's "Archduke" is mighty, mighty good! The Heifetz/Feuerman/Rubinstein from 1941 is great, too. But I'd have to compare all the versions first (also have Thibaud/Casals/Cortot, Zukerman/du Pré/Barenboim and Stern/Istomin/Rose).

None received at all - that does upset me! Okay, I've not ordered for a few months, but I've bought 70 or 80 boxes in the past 15 years, and at least a dozen Selects and Singles, each, so I do feel like being part of that community... Are you signed up for the regular emails? Yes, I usually get them (though sometimes I read about them here first and only get them a day or half a day later).

I guess it's when you hear a very distant echo of the music that will actually follow half a second or so later (so it's a pre-echo).

None received at all - that does upset me! Okay, I've not ordered for a few months, but I've bought 70 or 80 boxes in the past 15 years, and at least a dozen Selects and Singles, each, so I do feel like being part of that community...

Great, so it'll be that one then! Thanks guys!

Has anyone actually heard the Keller's takes on the string quartets in the meantime? They're around cheaply and I consider just buying them anyway... The Reiner concerto above was another mighty fine recommendation, Chuck - thanks a lot!

I've just mentioned it elsewhere, but I guess this qualifies for the bargains thread: Aldo Ciccolini Enregistrements EMI 1950-1991 - € 46.60 @ amazon.it

This looks mighty fine! What little I've heard of Grimal (a radio broadcast or two) sounded mighty fine!

Thanks, pre-orded the Debussy/Ravel Martinon set! Thought the Boulez one was out already, not sure, but I think I even saw it in a local store.

I guess it is... so I won't tell the world this time how many times I've bought the Hot Fives so far. But I've little intention to buy them again.

Nah, but you've told us three times, and my assumption is that many here don't care about spotify. Others (lurkers) might be happy about your mentioning it, though...

Guess I can happily live with the Intégrale and one missing take of "I Can't Give You Anything..." those 3CD sets are great!

Mine's okay too, just had to check! That explains why I thought I was turning crazy when I discovered the wrong cover this morning - thought I'd not noticed that wrong spelling over so many years.

Never noticed it - hilarious!

Depends on how my translation comes across ... That Alice-o-phobic said he had proof or whatever about Alice's doings but didn't have his library at hand - I'm curious about the things he comes up with, if he does. I sometimes do! German music forums are a drag, most of the time ... Proof? The plot thickens! She must have replaced Trane's brain sometime late in 1965 without anyone noticing! (I'm only a member of the german RollingStone forum - that's quite fun, most of the time, but obviously the scope goes way beyond jazz, and those interested in jazz are quite few.)

Shit, never managed to catch him in person. r.i.p.