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Well, sure enough Sony is reissuing some Perlman recordings, and it appears to be his earlier recordings (as Ubu reported above). I can't find any details at the moment, but I am hoping that at least some of the classic recordings from the Original Jacket Collection are included, since I never picked that up. Edit: Some information here, but a bit confusing at the moment. It appears that the Prokofiev Sonatas are on here, which was one of my main considerations (as I did pre-order). A fair bit of overlap with the OJC set but some reprogramming of pieces onto different CDs. I can't tell at the moment if anything was dropped from that set or indeed if there is anything new. But clearly if you have the Perlman OJC set, you won't need this. Perhaps a bit disappointing is that the kitchy film score recordings with John Williams are in the box as the last CD. I could have lived without that, esp. if it left room for something better. I have been eyeing the complete Van Cliburn and complete Byron Janis sets, but there is so much overlap with what I already have that I just couldn't justify either one. Prokofiev violin sonatas are among my favorite pieces of music. I heard probably close to a dozen versions of them, and this is my favorite one, by two obscure musicians: http://www.amazon.com/Violin-Sonatas-Prokofiev/dp/B000003W6M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360190671&sr=8-1&keywords=hardy+prokofiev

According to Sunny Murray (not exactly the most reliable source), Dolphy was supposed to join Albert Ayler quartet (Ayler-Peacock-Cherry-Murray) on tour in 1964. What a loss to music, both him and Booker Little.

This is the box I plan to gt eventually: I would be actually interested in a retrospective Keith Rowe box. Would love an Italian Instabile Orchestra one - with offshoots and all that.

This arrived in the mail today. In what perhaps is a first for the "OAC" series, the box had a little booklet inside with track listings (that are readable!) and a picture of Williams, in addition to the mini-album covers. I want. I've been listening to this today: Young Croatian hot shot Ana Vidovic. While you are at it, check out equally teenage Bosnian Sanel Redzic: http://www.sanelredzic.com/En/03.Media/media.htm

Looking forward to it, like Ardley a lot.

I suggest you guys keep this thread running. There is very little interest for more adventurous new-ish stuff at this forum, and individual threads on releases of this type will die a fast and inglorious death (there are actually dozens of such abortive threads around here, and Funny Rat actually was one before it picked up).

4 CDs = € 20 at amazon.it. Not too large of a selection of classical CDs, but I picked up a few of Virgin twofers as well as Berio / Barberian. http://www.amazon.it/s/ref=amb_link_171844127_9?ie=UTF8&bbn=2175920031&rh=i%3Apopular%2Cn%3A412600031%2Cn%3A!518398031%2Cn%3A!518400031%2Cn%3A2175920031%2Cp_6%3AA11IL2PNWYJU7H%2Cn%3A435475031&pf_rd_m=A11IL2PNWYJU7H&pf_rd_s=left-2&pf_rd_r=1PJMNB4K6N2BNPFNE2E4&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=329819747&pf_rd_i=2177073031

Blandine Rannou on Alpha. Great sound quality as well. Sample

I have nearly all of Leos up to LR 441, have not kept track since then. I have not listened to most of these for a long time, but from what I remember I would recommend the following ones: all three CDs by the Mat Maneri trioeverything by Wally Shoup, except for that blowhard disc with Paul FlahertyNed Rothenberg's "Crux"Braxton duo with Evan Parker and trio with Parker and RutherfordLeandre quartet disc with Maneri "For Flowers"Leandre duo with Tramontanaall Ivo Perelman CDs (although I have not heard the one where he plays cello), I like "Brazilian Watercolors" and "The Hamer" in particularNewton- Leandre - LeimgruberNewton - Leandre "Face It!"Matthew WelchAki Takase / Dempa BandDuval / McPhee - Undrsound IIboth Gael Mevel discsFabio Martini IntrioStand Adler "Apparitions"Lotte AnkerSimon Nabatov "Master & Margarita"Soviet Jazz sets Vol 1 & 2 (3 is merely OK, 4 is mediocre at best)Uwe Oberg "Lo"Alati "I am surprised..." - one of my favorite Leo releasesGuyvoronsky / PetrovaPetrova "Year's Cycle"Enrico Fazio - LiveRezitsky - Hot SoundsEvan Parker - The NeedlesTibor Szemso I like a lot, even if he gets a bit cheesy sometimes. It is pretty for removed from jazz or improvised music.Conference Call with Bennink

ep1strophy, great post. To clarify - I find Garrison definitely more interesting than William Parker (whom I find mostly just intolerable). I will pay more attention to Garrison when I listen to later Coltrane sides. I am actually listening to "Stellar Regions" at the moment, and to me Garrison sounds quite redundant here. Favors / Garrison connection - interesting... I like Favors, but somehow I enjoy his playing more on non-AEoC dates.

I love bass, one of my favorite instruments in improvised music. But Garrison's approach is just not interesting for me. His bass sounds essentially like some sort of African percussion, balafon or something. Short sounds, pulsating... sort of groovy. Very repetitive, very boring. I can't stand his solos - not only do I find them unimaginative, but they also all sound very similar to each other. And I actually love bass solos, have probably at least 20 CDs of solo improvised bass... I think his approach worked OK in Coltrane's "classic" quartet as supplement to Elvin, but was too square for the band with Ali. Garrison is actually very similar in style to William Parker, one bassist whose playing I really can't tolerate.

Looks like Living Stereo box is being reissued again. EUR 71 at amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B009J3K4MI/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF

"Master & Margarita" and "Chat Room" are very good. I am not familiar with his later stuff.

http://leorecords.com/?m=christmassale

Gergiev / Mariinsky 12-CD Decca box for €27 at amazon.it: http://www.amazon.it/The-Art-Valery-Gergiev/dp/B00975F09K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350906375&sr=8-1

And Importcds for $23 (before shipping): http://www.importcds.com/Music/1492799/Vladimir-Sofronitzki-Vladimir-Sofronitsky-Edition-Hist-CD

The quality of Sofronitsky recordings in the Brilliant set is surprisingly high. Not audiophile of course, but more than decent. Gotta check out Loredo, I think I have nothing by her.

Check out Emil Gilels.

There is this cheap set on Brilliant, it has 2 CDs of Sofronitsky playing Scriabin: http://www.amazon.es/Legendary-Russian-Pianists-Schumann-Tschaikowsky/dp/B001TEKI6C?SubscriptionId=AKIAIVGTH525N57WM2NQ&tag=pricenoia0e-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B001TEKI6C Also, there is a dedicated Sofronitsky Brilliant 9-CD set (playing not only Scriabin) that I have not heard, I think Flurin has it: http://www.amazon.de/Historical-Russian-Archives-Vladimir-Sofronitzky/dp/B001716JRE?SubscriptionId=AKIAIVGTH525N57WM2NQ&tag=galenicom06-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B001716JRE

Mediocre. Really. Have you listened to it? I have this set, listened to probably 2/3 of it. The playing is absolutely flat, no dynamic contrast at all. This is tepid, passionless Scriabin. I use Sofronitsky as a reference, and there is just no comparison. There are a lot of clips of both on youtube.

Mediocre. Really.

Don't care for Haydn too much, but Kasman is an excellent pianist, love his Prokofiev.

There is an obsession with old recordings on this board? I did not really notice it. The way I see it, people like what they like because they like it - not because the recordings are old. There seems to be a pretty healthy level of curiosity for newer recordings. And since we are at lashing out about hating the obsessions - I actually hate the obsession of living musicians with recording the old repertoire. What's the point exactly? Is there much new word to be said in Mozart or Beethoven? As for compensation, the artists are probably not getting too much from these boxes, but if there were no re-releases they would be getting nothing at all. And it is interesting that it is you, the main proponent of Spotify here, would bring the compensation question up . Having said this, I have not bought that many "mono-artist, mono-label" boxes, mainly because of the repertoire. Those that I bought, thought - Glenn Gould Bach, Stokowski EMI Icon, Maurice Andre Erato - I really liked a lot. I bought a few other large boxes (Harmonia Mundi "Enlightenment" being one of the recent purchases), and have been on the whole very impressed by them. Well, even in the new releases section of the board old recordings abound. I have no problem with the compensation issue on Spotify or anywhere - but others do which is what I was mentioning. By the way I am hardly lashing out here, am I? I referred to an opinion of mine which is well-known. I wasn't distinguishing between old classical and old jazz recordings in what I wrote - I see the interest in old records as being of a piece across both genres. I do think the obsession with compensation for recordings made over 50 years ago indicates a misplaced priority - it's well known that is my opinion. In the case of classical music, I don't see why older pieces should not continue to be performed - music is a practice not an archive of recordings. Let's hold my bad English accountable for "lashing out". If you talk about "new releases" in the jazz section of this board, well, this is a retro-leaning place, no news here. I remember there was this funny-something thread maintained by a grand total of three people interested in new-ish music, but they are all gone now. I don't necessarily see the retro-veneration in the classical discussions (well, among all five posters who have interest in sort of discussing classical music here). As for classical repertoire being performed today, I am more or less OK with this (although it does get fucking annoying here in Vienna where 60+% of performed repertoire is Mozart and Beethoven)... "live music is a different experience" and all that. I don't quite understand the point of 20-somethings churning out yet another record if Chopin, Mozart, Schubert you name it, when perhaps as much as 90% of all composed music has never been recorded. OK, it sells, but wtf anyway.

There is an obsession with old recordings on this board? I did not really notice it. The way I see it, people like what they like because they like it - not because the recordings are old. There seems to be a pretty healthy level of curiosity for newer recordings. And since we are at lashing out about hating the obsessions - I actually hate the obsession of living musicians with recording the old repertoire. What's the point exactly? Is there much new word to be said in Mozart or Beethoven? As for compensation, the artists are probably not getting too much from these boxes, but if there were no re-releases they would be getting nothing at all. And it is interesting that it is you, the main proponent of Spotify here, would bring the compensation question up . Having said this, I have not bought that many "mono-artist, mono-label" boxes, mainly because of the repertoire. Those that I bought, thought - Glenn Gould Bach, Stokowski EMI Icon, Maurice Andre Erato - I really liked a lot. I bought a few other large boxes (Harmonia Mundi "Enlightenment" being one of the recent purchases), and have been on the whole very impressed by them.