Why won't they release it?

[Bryn]

Many thanks for this, I have them in my check out, ready to purchase but I'm not sure about the shipping options. SAL Small Packet is the cheapest, does that stand much chance of avoiding customs?

Registered SAL looks like a good option.

At £14.95 for each double album, it is probably safest to place separate orders, thus keeping each below the £15 threshold.

[Beef Oven!]

At £14.95 for each double album, it is probably safest to place separate orders, thus keeping each below the £15 threshold.

Unfortunately, p&p has to be added before the £15 threshold is applied.

[HighlandDougie]

Many thanks for this, I have them in my check out, ready to purchase but I'm not sure about the shipping options. SAL Small Packet is the cheapest, does that stand much chance of avoiding customs?

Registered SAL looks like a good option.

I just use Air Mail and, touch wood, have never once had to pay customs duties - and that's for about a dozen orders from them. No guarantee, of course, but the goods do come pretty quickly with that option. Great packaging as well (as is pretty much always the case with anything one buys from Japan, like 'N' gauge model railway stuff .....).

[cloughie]

Yes, I bought the Sibelius and the sound is very good indeed. But as you say, no mastering details.

Thanks for the steer on the Tchaikovsky. Two separate sets (1-3 & 4-6) 2014. A bit prices on Amazon almost £71 on both sets (looks like Petrushka has a point about Amazon prices!). No details on mastering.

The Vienna Maazel box seems very good value but you would obviously repeat the Sibelius. I have all that are in it in previous incarnations - it seems a nitpicking pity that the box excludes Tapiola and Kearelia Suite both performance are superb - again I have these on other compilations - but it would be tidier to have them in the box.

[Beef Oven!]

I just use Air Mail and, touch wood, have never once had to pay customs duties - and that's for about a dozen orders from them. No guarantee, of course, but the goods do come pretty quickly with that option. Great packaging as well (as is pretty much always the case with anything one buys from Japan, like 'N' gauge model railway stuff .....).

I've split the order between CD Japan and a Swiss marketplace Amazon vendor. Fingers crossed.

[Ferretfancy]

Never been on CD
NatPO/Gerhardt : French music - Ravel/Faure/Satie exRL25094
CSO/Levine : Petrouchka exRL12612
PCO/Wolff : Glazunov Seasons ex ECS642
NSOL/Agoult:Clair de Lune/ Bach-Bantock:Wachet auf etc ex SPA111 (with Boult Bach-Bantock: Sheep may safely graze)

Also non-classical The 4 EMI Georgie Fame LPs,

Eloquence "Invitation to the Dance" 480 2388 .
Glazunov The Seasons -Weber Invitation to the Dance -Adam Giselle, plus works by Ravel, Manuel de Falla and Liszt.

A nice 2disc set, all with the PCO conducted by Albert Wolff.

[cloughie]

Eloquence "Invitation to the Dance" 480 2388 .
Glazunov The Seasons -Weber Invitation to the Dance -Adam Giselle, plus works by Ravel, Manuel de Falla and Liszt.

A nice 2disc set, all with the PCO conducted by Albert Wolff.

Thanks Ferret - Another kind boarder alerted me to the Eloquence disc and It now sits on my shelves - a great acquisition!

[Beef Oven!]

I can't understand why Sony still haven't re-released/made widely available, the 1963 Juilliard String Quartet set of the six Bartok string quartets.

I can't find a download or a very good CD set at a reasonable price. Rather frustrating.

[HighlandDougie]

I can't understand why Sony still haven't re-released/made widely available, the 1963 Juilliard String Quartet set of the six Bartok string quartets.

I can't find a download or a very good CD set at a reasonable price. Rather frustrating.

No bargain but not outrageously expensive - try searching Amazon UK for ASIN B00005UV71

[Pabmusic]

In January 1925 Columbia recorded Bantock's Hebridean Symphony with the CBSO and Boult. It was never released, and I'm not sure any copy now exists.

[Beef Oven!]

No bargain but not outrageously expensive - try searching Amazon UK for ASIN B00005UV71

Thanks HD

I've had a quick search and Amazon Germany has vg condition for not an exorbitant price, but I think I'll wait. I have plenty of excellent sets, so there is no urgency. It's just curious that an old, well-liked historic set is just not properly available.

[verismissimo]

I can't understand why Sony still haven't re-released/made widely available, the 1963 Juilliard String Quartet set of the six Bartok string quartets.

I can't find a download or a very good CD set at a reasonable price. Rather frustrating.

Ditto Lindsays.

[Bryn]

Ditto Lindsays.

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/bartok-the-6-string-quartets-the-lindsays/0002894812106

[Beef Oven!]

Ditto Lindsays.

Coincidentally, while looking for the 1963 Juilliard set last night, I happened upon the Lindsays on Presto and bought the download.

[Bryn]

Following on from this, it's about time Harmonia Mundi made their Festetics recording of Haydn's Seven 'Last Words . . . ' avilable again.