Given how things work with classical music, it's most likely a repackage/reissue using the same UPC. https://www.discogs.com/John-DowlandConsort-Of-Musicke-John-Dowland-The-Collected-Works/release/8076721 is flagged as a a reissue. Since the two other box sets from 2007 (Beethoven Symphonies and Mozart Symphonies) were also reissues and the original releases are , it's likely they were in plastic cases.
He was upset at getting the MHS version from a Marketplace seller. THAT does not go into a review of the MUSIC. The one star reviewer didn't like recording quality. Since Amazon's physical music sales have dropped (along with the rest of the world), except for new releases, they have offloaded physical sales to partners. Consequently their formerly excellent (ca. 2007) cataloging of music releases has gone into the dumper. I don't buy from them for the most part, except new releases that they actually stock. For some of my recent purchases, Presto has actually beaten them on price, because one of their partners is handling the transaction. (Arkiv has never beat Amazon on price.)
After a bunch of purchases at Arkiv in the early 2000's, I stopped buying from them though I have continued to receive their email promotions. BTW, I have seen one star reviews where the reviewers mostly griped about something else, not the SQ or performance.
Just had another listen to: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 4 Piano Sonatas played on a ca. 1820 fortepiano (or hammerklavier) Conrad Hasen DG MONO (P) 1956-58 from the 51-CD boxset The Mono Years This here was only ever released on CD as part of this boxset. Looking at my DG catalogues, it is there in the 1959 edition and still in print in 1962. But it being a mono recording, I assume it soon vanished form the catalogue never to reappear again until this CD reissue. I really enjoy his playing, and the fortepiano sound is very good. There is a clarity and expressiveness to his melodic lines that I rarely find in other performers. The liner notes state Hansen was a pupil of Edwin Fischer’s. It’s quite surprising that DG decided to record this on a fortepiano, way before HIP was even a thing. Goes to show that performance history is not as linear as one if often led to believe.
I think you mean Conrad Hansen (1906-2002) Conrad Hansen – Wikipedia I have his recording of Beethoven's Piano Concerto 4 with Wilhelm Furtwängler/Berlin PO from 1943.
Interesting! I have about a half dozen recordings by Edwin Fischer, mostly on Naxos Historical, much more legit than Membran ...
Was looking for Edwin Fischer's Beethoven Piano Sonatas recordings, but there are not that many. I'm not interested in labels like Membran/Documents.
The best thing is to simply return a defective record right away. I have only bought a very few newly recorded LPs the past 5 years, pop music only, but they were pressed OK. However, I have heard negative comments about recent classical vinyl (not reissues but new issues on DG and Decca). Mostly the recording sonics have been panned but there have been some pressing complaints. Of course some pop LPs are messed up too. I only buy EU pressed records. But in this case this record seems to have been pressed in Germany. Decca is not going to care but Hilary Hahn might be annoyed to find this out. So maybe send an email to her rep. Just speaking generally if you get very low frequency noise from an LP it's because: a. it is in the recording itself from outside traffic, construction etc, or b. it is a pressing defect, or c. the tonearm has a resonance outside the safe zone of 8 - 14 HZ. Some phono stages have a subsonic filter. If you have a subwoofer it may help to turn it off. LPs have to roll off very low bass anyway. And in truth very little music exists below 40HZ, the lowest notes of the double bass. Only the piano and organ go lower outside of synthesizers.
Edwin Fischer recorded many more Bach than he did Beethoven ... I have the following Naxos Historical CD Reconstructed/remastered by MOT, one of the best in the business.
Edwin Fischer didn't record that many Beethoven Piano Sonatas, but more than the two included in the Icon set.
There are 3 Beethoven Piano Concertos in the Icon box, 3, 4 & 5. I do not have his Icon box but should have bought it when it was inexpensive.
What are you looking for? I can try to help via the pics from the ebay seller I got the set from, or you can just hold out till I actually get the set.
I'm on vacation in the southwest and this weekend I've been listening to the local classical radio station. Heard from Bach's cousin (Bernard?), Mozart's dad and the youngest Mozart son. Not bad. I really liked what I heard from Bach's cousin. Couldn't write the performers/title quick enough; only scribbled down "G minor".
First listen to CD 9 from "Bach: The Sacred Cantatas" on Das Alte Werk. Harnoncourt - Cantatas BWV 26-29 Concentus musicus Wien, Chorus Viennensis
J S Bach: Harpsichord Concertos for 2,3,4 Harpsichords. Koopmann, Amsterdam Baroque Orch. Philips Holland red white label
