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Concerning the £300 Martzy re-issue, I have a 2006 Rare Classical Record (that's LP record) Price Guide. It suggests the three mono LPs of Martzy playing Bach on the first label should sell for £3500, over a thousand quid each. I've only ever seen one sell on ebay and it went for £380 five years ago: much less than the guide indicates, but it may not have been in good nick.
I can see no point at all in paying £300 for an LP re-issue. The sound on the CD re-issue will be just as good, if not better, and the LP re-issue is most unlikely ever to become a collectors' item, because collectors want the originals. If I had three hundred quid to spare to spend on an LP, I'd save my pennies while I went hunting for the originals. Given their scarcity, I'll probably be saving my pennies for a very long time.
Incidentally, Martzy made a couple of other mono LPs, of Schubert, and the guide suggests they will cost £500 each. The lady must either be a very special violinist, or, judging by the rarity of her recordings, such a poor one that no-one bought her discs. But I suspect that the real reason these discs cost a fortune is that they sold in very small numbers. Solo violin music is quite an esoteric taste, and these discs were expensive at a time when people didnt have so much money as they do now. Given that the few that did sell then had to endure the often badly adjusted equipment that they were played on, it is not surprising that there are very few around today.
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