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Courtesy of Les Bons plans de la misique classique blog - Complete Ravel on Decca / Universal (14 CDs) for €44 at amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de...46875478&sr=8-1 Content listed here: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4783725

Great record Does Spotify have the new remasters?

I assume this is what ZFT will do. Otherwise, there is no explanation for them not fixing it now - it is one of the most most notoriously botched 1995 CD reissues in the whole FZ catalog. But I guess they will wait at least a year. Looks like these new reissues are selling well (judging by amazon sales rankings, at least), so I hope ZFT will reinvest the money into more archival reissues.

My favorites are: Absolutely Free We're Only in It for the Money Burnt Weeny Sandwich Weasels Ripped My Flash Hot Rats Waka / Jawaka Over-nite Sensation You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol. 2 Sleep Dirt Studio Tan Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Jazz From Hell Make a Jazz Noise Here Yellow Shark if you want to get just one for starters, go for Burnt Weeny Sandwich For comparison of 1995 Ryko releases with new reissues refer to this ever-changing page: http://www.lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/2012hotpoop.html

I have both, and actually like the Shiny Beast more (except that I have to crank up the bass on it), if only for 'Tropical Hot Dog Night'. And you have Bruce Fowler there. Meanwhile, I have read an excellent Beefheart biography by Mike Barnes - it's really well written, and gives quite a comprehensive overview of Van Vliet's personality and music. Sad and hilarious at times, it also devotes quite a bit of space to love-hate (but mostly love) relationship between Beefheart and Zappa. Credit to Mr Barnes for keeping it updated (my Kindle version is the third revised edition since the initial release in 2001). Couple of my favorite Beefheart videos: Excellent live performance from 1971: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=4DSWY7cvSBI And to demonstrate what a phenomenal voice he had - here is him singing old blues called 'Black Snake' a cappella on radio (love his comment in the end that he just can't sing into the microphone because 'it's too little' ): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Hmj69c0yA

What instrument does he play the Haydn sonatas on? Copy of a late-XVIII century fortepiano.

Get the Andreas Staier Edition on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / Sony. A lot of good stuff there, including a CD or two of Scarlatti.

Not really. Adding digital reverb and messing with EQ (which is what was done to earlier Rykos) does not constitute a remix. Real remixes were a few - Hot Rats, Sleep Dirt, etc. Good summary has been already prepared here: http://lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/2012hotpoop.html

These have been confirmed to be new remasters: Absolutely Free Burnt Weeny Sandwich Weasels Ripped My Flesh Chunga's Revenge Fillmore East, June 1971 Just Another Band From L.A. Waka/Jawaka The Grand Wazoo Over-nite Sensation Apostrophe(‘) One Size Fits All Bongo Fury Zoot Allures Studio Tan Sleep Dirt Sheik Yerbouti Joe's Garage Acts 1, 2 & 3 Tinseltown Rebellion Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar You Are What You Is Them or Us The rest are straight Ryko reissues.

Samples do sound good, will probably get it eventually.

WERGO package of 5CDs (Stravinsky, Cage, Stockhausen, Nono, Schnebel) at amazon.es for €20: http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B007LHGD10/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

Particularly given that these were scissor and adhesive tape edits. In general, FZ was great with editing and you realize it in particular when you hear the source live material and what Zappa made out of it on released records. For example, the guitar tour de force from Sheik Yerbouti, Rat Tomago (4'43'') - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuDLlgRuI6Y is an edited version of a Torture Never Stops solo from the '78 performance in Berlin (6'39'') - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6fKl-huexE . When you compare them you realize how masterfully the edits were done and how much better the edited version sounds.

Got Hot Rats today, and it indeed sounds good - better than the Ryko edition. However, I miss the 1987 mix - better guitar solo edits on Willie, additional instruments on a few tracks (Little Umbrellas really sounds 'empty'), and the long Ian Underwood alto sax solo. Ideally, I would have the 1987 mix mastered properly .

I would probably agree. Prompted by this thread I listened to trio #2 a few times now, and it is nothing special (although not horrible, either). Admittedly, I am not a Shostakovich fan in general. There are less that 10 of his works that really excite me - string quartet #15, violin & piano sonata, viola & piano sonata, preludes & fugues op. 87, symphony 14... symphony 6, perhaps a few more. Piano concertos are fun. The rest I consider rather mediocre. Have not heard either "Golden Age" or "Lady Macbeth".

Thanks, ordered me a copy. Any good? Listened to it twice, not very attentively - not sure what to make out of it yet. So far, this seems like the least interesting Feldman I've heard.

First reviews of the new remasters are glowing, so I placed an order for "Hot Rats" at amazon.it, and noticed it is at #51 of the amazon.it top CD sellers - in between Police's "Regatta..." and Joe Henderson's "Mode for Joe" . I assume amazon.it sells CDs in low volumes, so a few odd orders can skew the 'Top' list, but it's amusing nonetheless.

I share your caution regarding Kremer-Maisky-Argerich, alhtough I have not heard this CD. How about Dmitri Dmitrievich himself (with one Milos Sadlo and one David Oistrakh)? Here is his 1947 recording I have (the sound quality is good, and the performance is electrifying): http://www.amazon.co...erto+piano+trio ? it might have been issued in different guises since. Hear it on youtube: http://www.youtube.c...&feature=relmfu and so on.

If anybody missed the fantastic Stravinsky "Miniatures" CD of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra on DG, it has been recently reissued on Brilliant, available at European amazons for about €5-6. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stravinsky-Miniatures-Orpheus-Chamber-Orchestra/dp/B002HNAAQ2?SubscriptionId=AKIAIVGTH525N57WM2NQ&tag=galenicom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B002HNAAQ2

Hans, I know lute is out of consideration, but how about lute-harpsichord ? Bach as a Teacher. Keyboard Works from Cothen Period. Robert Hill, lute-harpsichord and clavichord (hanssler)

It actually often works surprisingly well. Give it a try, of you have not heard them.

I agree, this is a good one.

The only version of WTC that I've heard so far and found interesting is very idiosyncratic Olli Mustonen (on piano) where Bach's WTC Book 1 is interspersed with Shostakovich's Preludes & Fugues Op. 87. There are two 2-CD sets, one on RCA (now OOP), one on Ondine. Amazon has samples. Ondine set: http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Shostakovich-Preludes-Fugues-Vol/dp/B00012SZFO/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1344165818&sr=1-2&keywords=mustonen+bach RCA set: http://www.amazon.de/Pr%C3%A4ludien-Fugen-von-Bach-Schostakowitsch/dp/B000023ZR4/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1344165907&sr=1-2

Hans, I understand you're not into lute, but others might find it interesting. Silvius Leopold Weiss was a great baroque composer for lute. I would recommend a 3-CD set by Terrell Stone. It's OOP but can be found here and there. Allmusic has samples, check them out: http://www.allmusic.com/album/silvius-leopold-weiss-sei-parthie-di-versavia-mw0001831181 I second Moms' recommendation for Blandine Rannou's harpsichord recordings - most gorgeous sound. I am not a fan of Leonhard either, he manages to make Bach sound boring (at least on a few Deutsche Harmonis Mundi recordings of his I have).

All Baroque Box (50 CDs) on Archiv / Deutsche Grammophon for €93 at amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B008BP1LS6/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d0_i5?pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=06X3EBZ1JQV91YQQVVBD&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463375173&pf_rd_i=301128 Track list here: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4790441

Loved it, just ordered the CD. Thanks!