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[Bryn]

On the doormat when I got home this evening, Mozart's KV466 and KV 467 (Arthur Schoonderwoerd/Cristofori). It's in the player awaiting the end of the Now Show (yes, I know, I know). However, I am rather annoyed to find that Accent have opted to a daft digipack gate-fold with the 36 page booklet stuffed into a slot, the sides of which had already split before I even got the plastic film wrapper off.

[cloughie]

On the doormat when I got home this evening, Mozart's KV466 and KV 467 (Arthur Schoonderwoerd/Cristofori). It's in the player awaiting the end of the Now Show (yes, I know, I know). However, I am rather annoyed to find that Accent have opted to a daft digipack gate-fold with the 36 page booklet stuffed into a slot, the sides of which had already split before I even got the plastic film wrapper off.

Why do they do that? I know plastic cases break, but can be replaced and preserve the inserts long-term!

[Mahlerei]

Don't get me started on Digipaks; they're scuffed and torn in no time. Even less acceptable when premium labels such as Channel insist on using them.

[HighlandDougie]

The John Tilbury John Cage Sonatas and Interludes - for which I've been searching for some time at a reasonable price, finally found via German Amazon marketplace.

[Bryn]

The John Tilbury John Cage Sonatas and Interludes - for which I've been searching for some time at a reasonable price, finally found via German Amazon marketplace.

You might like to rip and re-edit the tracks, HD. See the relevant customer review on amazon.co.uk. A minor annoyance, but a real one if you want to listen to Sonatas 10 and 11 individually.

I am amazed at what they are asking for it. It was going for about a fiver not so long ago.

I hope you did not pay more than this:

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=SHI3ECeNJmnipu0jyAkyBAiXpay8O3_io1tf2ckYqzyBzHdQuz67CA9hzwy&dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9b61f737ba21b08198d7a214dbf6ac4f3cd23680b71ef37df3

[Curalach]

Why do they do that? I know plastic cases break, but can be replaced and preserve the inserts long-term!

My feeling entirely. I have yet to receive a digipak which doesn't arrive damaged. Yet another triumph of design over common sense!!

[AmpH]

Just arrived today :-

Elgar Violin Concerto - Bean / Groves and Zukerman / Barenboim - my 2 favourite versions of this wonderful concerto to replace copies " borrowed " by others !
Dvorak Symphonies 1 - 9 conducted by Otmar Suitner on Berlin Classics
Schubert - String Quintet in C major - Aeolian Qt etc on Regis

Recently purchased and currently listening to :-

Reichenauer concertos - music from 18th C Prague - Musica Florea - lively and stimulating , will be exploring more from this series
Borodin - Syms 1 - 3 NPO / Loris Tjeknavorian - superb performances of underrated symphonies
Zemlinsky - Lyric Symphony / Eschenbach - brilliantly recorded Capriccio SACD - musically....I need to give it more time
Suppe - Overtures - ASMF / Marriner - a little ' light cavalry ' etc to let off steam !

[aeolium]

Schubert - String Quintet in C major - Aeolian Qt etc on Regis

A wonderful performance. It was one of my first LP purchases on the old Saga label.

I am awaiting a CD of Rameau Les Indes Galantes and Dardanus Suites performed by the Collegium Aureum. I am sadly lacking in recordings of music by this composer.

[HighlandDougie]

I am awaiting a CD of Rameau Les Indes Galantes and Dardanus Suites performed by the Collegium Aureum. I am sadly lacking in recordings of music by this composer.

Much looked down on by certain critics when released as it was never written in this way by Rameau himself. Think Minkowski doing a sort of Stokowski with Rameau but without tinkering with Rameau's orchestration.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rameau-imaginaire-Les-Musiciens-Louvre/dp/B00083FYQE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1333195815&sr=1-1

It has some great music on it, stylishly performed by musicians who clearly love playing it. It's a CD I play often, particularly if I feel in the need of being cheered up.

[Mahlerei]

Mahler 9 (GMJO/Abbado) Blu-ray
Věc Makropulos (Salonen/WP) Blu-ray

[makropulos]

Věc Makropulos (Salonen/WP) Blu-ray

Ah. Just received my copy a couple of days ago. To be honest I'm glad it's a review copy...but I hope you think the production is more successful than I do?
Great to hear the WP playing this piece again - though my first impressions are that Salonen is no Mackerras in this work.

[Parry1912]

My feeling entirely. I have yet to receive a digipak which doesn't arrive damaged. Yet another triumph of design over common sense!!

I've not yet bought a second-hand one where the slot for the booklet wasn't torn.

[Don Petter]

I've not yet bought a second-hand one where the slot for the booklet wasn't torn.

I heartily agree - Death to all digipacks! (Before they get to the suppliers, not when they get to us).

I'm just listening to my recent purchase of the Weiss/Kaplan/Newman Trio's recording of the Brahms Op.8 Piano Trio on Bridge. I was always a great fan of the Golub/Kaplan/Carr Trio, and this CD received an excellent revue in Fanfare. It seems to be shaping up pretty well in the first movement, but I'm not sure it will ever oust the Stern/Istomin/Rose recording for me - with that great barn-storming performance which I just can't get out of my head whenever I hear the work. Luckily we can easily possess more than one one recording, and I'm enjoying it with my (fairly) unbiased ear. (I reserve the right to get the S/I/R out afterwards for full discharge of gratification, though. )

The coupling is the Smetana Piano Trio, which doesn't get all that many outings, though I do seem to have five recordings on CD already. Always room for another to go with Amati, Beaux Arts, Fontenay, Joachim and Oistrakh/Oborin/Knushevitsky.

[Barbirollians]

Another annoying digipak on the Faust Beethoven disc - you can get the booklet out but back in ???

[Dave2002]

The most recent, but as yet unplayed CDs have been Giulini's Bach B minor Mass, and the British Symphonic Collection which arrived a few days ago.

I did pick up The Bartered Bride in a charity shop last week, and enjoyed listening to that yesterday. It is a 2 CD Supraphon conducted by Chalabala - seemingly from 1995 - http://www.supraphon.com/en/catalogu...?idtitulu=1433 Not bad, even at the now inflated prices (£3) charged by the charity shop, though I went there more when I could get 3 for £1!