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I catalog every CD I have, so it's pretty easy to double check if I can find a track listing for the new CD issue. But I find lately Amazon hasn't been putting up track listings, or they have those dreaded composer-less track listings. i.e. Violin Sonata No. 3 - no mention of the composer.stenka razin wrote:slofstra, what wonderful news. But, can you imagine how many duplicates are in the Icon series? EMI is notorious for reissueing and recycling material over and over again. But, there may be some 'new' material in the Icon series. I hope so.
Nice link. I modified my OP to include the Cortot set. I see there will be a Jussi Bjoerling box as well.Chalkperson wrote:This link has all the Track Listings for all the Boxes...
http://www.emi-icons.com/new_releases.php
Jussi Bjorling was IMHO the greatest singer ever...non Italian that is, and obviously he was not Maria Callas...his early EMI Recordings are some of the best he ever made...I was never really a Cortot Fan..too many bum notes...slofstra wrote:Nice link. I modified my OP to include the Cortot set. I see there will be a Jussi Bjoerling box as well.Chalkperson wrote:This link has all the Track Listings for all the Boxes...
http://www.emi-icons.com/new_releases.php
Ah - but what piano tone Cortot had. I'm delighted to see that a Cortot release is coming in EMI's ICON series. The only sorrow is that it is not his complete recorded legacy for HMV. His general musicianship and playing, however, was "forgiven" for his numerous missed notes. And it's true, some of the last recordings he made were really not very good; some of those were never even issued by HMV/EMI, including a couple of concerto recordings he made with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops.Chalkperson wrote:I was never really a Cortot Fan..too many bum notes...
Chalkperson wrote:This link has all the Track Listings for all the Boxes...
http://www.emi-icons.com/new_releases.php
200 titles/sets or 200 CDs?Chalkperson wrote:My Richter Box arrived today, Bought in the US, Online from the UK and Shipped from France, they have sold out of the first set of Boxes, I bought the last one..like Oistrakh it is an important purchase, I only had about half the stuff already, mainly the Concertos but there are Mozart Violin Sonatas and a bunch of other stuff I did not have as EMI Studio recordings, and the way the discs are coupled is different in all but the Greig/Schumann Farce...so my Richter Collection passes the 200 mark, and I call on Lance to tell us how many Richter recordings he has, I know, but I want you all to know....
The Box cost $61 including shipping...
Where did you order it from, fellow Canadian? Perhaps I can share some insight based on my own shipping experiences. I've had mine for a couple of weeks anyway. It's now completely catalogued which means I can start to play some of it.keninottawa wrote:I'm getting antsy... My Oistrakh set apparently shipped from Kentucky on the 17th of last month and I still haven't received it!
The problem is often Customs depending on how the retailer filled out the paperwork. Amazon seems to breeze through and using the middle level of shipping, I always get my orders way ahead of their projected date. The only thing I don't like about arkiv is that a single order seems to come in lots of little boxes.keninottawa wrote:Henry, I ordered it from an independent retailer on eBay, so I wouldn't expect the service to be as quick as Amazon or Arkiv.
200 Richter CD's...actually I did it because it was cheaper than it will be in the US, the pound is lower than it has been in a while, Amazon lists it at $94...also I am listening to 20 Box Sets at work, playing each disc in order, these are the Twenty Boxes...but the dipping aspect is not part of the process, you can only play the CD's in the Box in order, you can't jump to a later disc, but you can pick from any box...slofstra wrote:200 titles/sets or 200 CDs?Chalkperson wrote:My Richter Box arrived today, Bought in the US, Online from the UK and Shipped from France, they have sold out of the first set of Boxes, I bought the last one..like Oistrakh it is an important purchase, I only had about half the stuff already, mainly the Concertos but there are Mozart Violin Sonatas and a bunch of other stuff I did not have as EMI Studio recordings, and the way the discs are coupled is different in all but the Greig/Schumann Farce...so my Richter Collection passes the 200 mark, and I call on Lance to tell us how many Richter recordings he has, I know, but I want you all to know....
The Box cost $61 including shipping...
You have to be the first one on the block, don't you?
Canadian Customs is Legendary, the only Country where Fed Ex cannot guarantee a delivery date if it comes from the US...Arkiv ships from lots of different places, some are from the Distributors Directly like Qualiton, Naxos etc...slofstra wrote:The problem is often Customs depending on how the retailer filled out the paperwork. Amazon seems to breeze through and using the middle level of shipping, I always get my orders way ahead of their projected date. The only thing I don't like about arkiv is that a single order seems to come in lots of little boxes.keninottawa wrote:Henry, I ordered it from an independent retailer on eBay, so I wouldn't expect the service to be as quick as Amazon or Arkiv.
I've tracked shipments using the UPS waybill # and at some point the shipment disappears into the Customs abyss only to re-appear a week or two later.
They ship distributor-direct, which is very smart from an inventory management perspective but annoying to the end customer.Chalkperson wrote:Canadian Customs is Legendary, the only Country where Fed Ex cannot guarantee a delivery date if it comes from the US...Arkiv ships from lots of different places, some are from the Distributors Directly like Qualiton, Naxos etc...slofstra wrote:The problem is often Customs depending on how the retailer filled out the paperwork. Amazon seems to breeze through and using the middle level of shipping, I always get my orders way ahead of their projected date. The only thing I don't like about arkiv is that a single order seems to come in lots of little boxes.keninottawa wrote:Henry, I ordered it from an independent retailer on eBay, so I wouldn't expect the service to be as quick as Amazon or Arkiv.
I've tracked shipments using the UPS waybill # and at some point the shipment disappears into the Customs abyss only to re-appear a week or two later.
I found it to be very annoying too, if one is buying say 6 CD's then it is likely that they form some kind of listening chain or logic, when the discs arrive in a random order spaced over a week it means that the anticipation for the discs disappears, if however you are buying all discs from one label, or their Arkiv CD's then there is a fair chance the may arrive together, I had two orders like that with some Arkiv CD's of Kubelik and Dorati, the discs arrived together so my pre-thought listening order was kept in place, the other thing I find really annoying is their refusal to have any form of contact by telephone, when I placed my first order I was shocked when it arrived in dribs and drabs, I thought that they were selling me discs that they did not have in stock, I wrote an e-mail complaining and asking when they were going to get humans for us collectors to talk to, they said their Company Philosophy did not include the Telephone, I said that would deter me from purchasing things because I may have questions, they said fine, then don't buy from us, so I don't, except on their Arkiv CD series...slofstra wrote:They ship distributor-direct, which is very smart from an inventory management perspective but annoying to the end customer.
Back when I listened to a lot of rock I used to keep 30 to 40 current LPs in one pile. If I played one of them it would move up 10 ranks, unless it was already in the top 20, then it would move half way to #1. If it was #2 it would become #1. Then every week I wrote down my top 10 based on what was at the top of the pile.Chalkperson wrote:200 Richter CD's...actually I did it because it was cheaper than it will be in the US, the pound is lower than it has been in a while, Amazon lists it at $94...also I am listening to 20 Box Sets at work, playing each disc in order, these are the Twenty Boxes...but the dipping aspect is not part of the process, you can only play the CD's in the Box in order, you can't jump to a later disc, but you can pick from any box...slofstra wrote:200 titles/sets or 200 CDs?Chalkperson wrote:My Richter Box arrived today, Bought in the US, Online from the UK and Shipped from France, they have sold out of the first set of Boxes, I bought the last one..like Oistrakh it is an important purchase, I only had about half the stuff already, mainly the Concertos but there are Mozart Violin Sonatas and a bunch of other stuff I did not have as EMI Studio recordings, and the way the discs are coupled is different in all but the Greig/Schumann Farce...so my Richter Collection passes the 200 mark, and I call on Lance to tell us how many Richter recordings he has, I know, but I want you all to know....
The Box cost $61 including shipping...
You have to be the first one on the block, don't you?
Oistrakh on EMI
Richter on EMI
Kondrashin's Shostakovich on Melodiya
Roland Brautigan's Haydn on Fortepiano
Vivaldi's Sacred Music on Hyperion
Mravinsky on Erato/WB
Karajan on Decca
Zubin Mehta on Decca
Beethoven's Symphonies by MacKerras on Hypperion
The Elgar Box
Schnabel's Beethoven Cycle
The Art of Szymon Goldberg on EMI
Leonid Kogan on Brilliant
Daniel Shafran on Brilliant
Beethoven Symphonies by Anima Eterna on Zig Zag
Gustav Leonhardt on Sony
Bach's Keboard works by Andras Schiff on Decca
Janet Baker on EMI
Stravinsky by Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky by Muti on Brilliant
I used to listen this way when I was a kid, except that I had little cards for each side of each of my LP's and picked them at random, this is different now because you have to listen systematically, so it make for an interesting way to pick music...
There is, I admit a certain degree of obsession among Collectors when it comes to Richter, we can't seem to get enough of his playing, so given the financial advantage and the fact that there were Chamber Music discs in the box necessitated an instant purchase, he recorded relatively little Chamber Music so I was eager to hear the Mozart Violin Sonatas...slofstra wrote: 200 titles/sets or 200 CDs?
You have to be the first one on the block, don't you?
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