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I'll do it.

Thanks, I am not familiar with Geza Anda as I am with others pianist like Kempff, Brendel, Ashkenazy, Curzon, Gilels, Benedetti Michelangeli, Baremboim, Pollini or Schnabel, just to name the fews that comes in mind now.

Yep, I am so in love with his Chopin I never felt the desire to buy other pianists' performances.

Nocturnes

Yeah, I thought I would become a billionarie selling stuff, but my paypal account never exceed 1K in its life, and even that for very very few seconds, I realized how many things I usually buy online, books, tools, wine, pipes, whatever.

I always had a credit card linked on paypal as a buyer, when I started to sell on discogs, not ebay, I linked my bank account to paypal. Anyway I never had to transfert funds from paypal to my account since I use the paypal funds for online purchase.

Another interesting study about Covid-19 in Italy: Lessons from Italy’s Response to Coronavirus From Harvard Business Review

The organ concertos from this vinyl box set:

That's interesting, as I use paypal as seller on discogs and I already met a couple of lunatic buyers, I am going to cut the Paypal access to my bank account. Thanks! I am asking myself if is it the same with a credit card?

Actually I enjoyed the operas at theatre especially Mozart and Rossini I found boring listening to the whole opera at home without the acting, Don Giovanni a part.

My father, who was a great classical music lover used to say about Wagner that he had 15 minutes of immortal music inside hours of boredom. Now listen to:

I do as well! Some times ago I bet a ridicolous amount of money on ebay for the Wagner's Ring, Decca/Solti, something like 20 € or less, I was expecting I'd lost it, instead I won so I had to spend much more for shipping these 19 LP box set. I tried to listen to it, I really did it, but definitely it's not my cup of tea. The only opera I really love it's Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Yeah, we pay the price for being the edge of the Empire, but we got lots of cheap operas box sets.

In Italy there's no such things as a real used jazz records bins, just cheap reissues, mostly collections. I bought my originals from US ages ago, so I never met HMV records. The 2CD reissue of ALS sounds fair IMO.

For some obscure reason I never met a nice mono original in my life, I have a stereo german audiophile reissue, Speaker Corner, as my listening copy, and the expanded cd version of course.

In the darkest hours we have to look for the enlightened so:

Yes

Meditation wine.

Vinyl box set. Beethoven is my safe harbour since I was a teenager.

According to scientists in this case contagion in Italy has no relationship with anti-sanitary situation that we have for sure but in this case is not relevant. I am sorry If I overreacted but newspapers and social media are full of bullshits and crappy conspiracy theories about this virus. Sorry it wasn’t meant to you.

Thanks! you too, they say to sanitize evrything with alcohol, I follow strictly the rule.

"Racist" is the taste when one implies the anti-sanitary conditions are applied to one specific group, chinese or indians. I understand your point about national responsability, but more or less all of democratic governments dealed with the dilemma: economy or health, I wouldn't bet that a heavy economic recession will cause less casualties then covid. BTW here in Rome liquor stores made thousands of deliveries per day: my last order: Prost!

Not true, we have one of biggest chinese community close to Florence, Prato, that is untouched. The most recovered people are italians. So this a fake news, a little bit racist towards chineses and italians IMHO. Considering that the chinese region where started the contagion is one of the most developped with thousands of manifacturing factories, that thousands of foreigners come and go for quality control, making deal, whathever the interconnected global industries need, and that the covid is freaking contagious, you don't need a anti-sanitary conditions, just some engineers from Milan or Detroit that were there to control the chain supply of an electronic component and if these engineers were asymptomatic they were perfect agents of contagion. I tend to believe scientists nowadays rather then journalists looking for front page stories. No offense for engineers. BTW Bergamo, the most hitted city, has lots of high tech factories producing lots of component for german automotive industries, like Brembo the guys who make brakes for Ferrari, Porsche and all the motor sports like F 1 , Superbike, etc..

Several weekends maybe ten, for searching and loading approximately 3500 items on discogs. Admittedly discogs do not list all of my stuff maybe 50 pressings or editions are missing

What is evident from Italian experience is that Covid patients should be treated in separate and specific structures avoiding by any means being in contact with common ER and health systems. Medics should adopt the strongest protocols in order to avoid infections. Over here almost twenty doctors with no previous diseases died because of Covid.