So Pleased. Just got tickets to see Andras Schiff Playing the Goldbergs, and other Bach at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. Got to wait until November though
Ah. I must have missed it. I meant a photo of your set, the booklet, the labels etc. I’m curious to see if it’s the same. Is it cloth-bound?
On the TT... Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 15 & 17. French pianist Robert Casadesus with Members of the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell. A Columbia Masterworks 1969 release; mine copy is '70s repress (a '69 original would have been a gray label 2-eye).
For those interested, Amazon is selling the reissue of the Takacs Quartet Beethoven Cycle, featuring 7 CDs, a DVD-Video of three quartets performed live, distinct from the studio recordings in the box, and a Blu-Ray Audio of the whole thing in 24-bit, for $31. https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Complete-String-Quartets-Blu-Ray/dp/B01N4MFPV0/
Brahms Complete Solo Piano Works, Geoffroy Couteau (2015) Just getting to this today. Picked it up a while ago. Brought it to work. No definite impressions yet...
Another one from the new batch: Stravinsky conduct Stravinsky • The Firebird. CBS Masterworks 1970s repress, 2A/2H
Where do you buy these reissues? Soundstage Direct has a good supply of them, but they are rather pricey.
Sadly cut back my classical listening to play grade/sell more vinyl in the evening. I listened to Van Cliburn playing Prokofiev's Piano Concerto 3 on RCA. One of my friends used to be the US importer for Siltech Cables and had his office was next to Sound Mirror in Boston, he attended the mastering session for one of these SACDs. He said when they went back and forth between live tape playback and the CD transfer none of them could tell the differences which was which. I immediately bought all 49 or 50 of the titles after he told me this, since he was insanely picky (had all his amps torn apart and rewired with Siltech) so this was high praise coming from him.
Actually, that's exactly where I get them. Soundstage Direct has been running 15%-20% off sales for most of this year so I take advantage of that to make them a bit less costly. I still spend too much for my own good though. These have just been uniformly so good that I have bought just about all of them that interest me.
