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orinoco
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response 25 of 38:
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Jan 19 22:41 UTC 2000 |
Why is it that classical CD prices seem to vary so much more widely than other
CD prices?
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dbratman
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response 26 of 38:
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Jan 19 23:18 UTC 2000 |
Because classical CDs sell more elderly backstock. Look at the CD
prices for pop music from the 40s and 50s, and you'll see a lot of
really cheap reissues.
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krj
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response 27 of 38:
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Jan 19 23:24 UTC 2000 |
That's part of it, but there's no pop equivalent to the Naxos line,
for example, which is usually priced at $5-$6 for modern digital
recordings, usually recorded by artists you never heard of before, or
at least ones outside the star system.
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orinoco
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response 28 of 38:
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Jan 20 00:20 UTC 2000 |
Now that I think about it, that may be partly because a recording of the
Moonlight Sonata by someone you've never heard of is still _The Moonlight
Sonata,_ making it a safer bet than an album of original songs by a rock band
you've never heard of.
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davel
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response 29 of 38:
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Jan 22 15:22 UTC 2000 |
OTOH, you've already *got* five recordings of the Moonlight Sonata, no? So
if you don't already know of some reason that it's worth buying, you may just
decide not to pay $15.
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orinoco
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response 30 of 38:
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Jan 22 16:22 UTC 2000 |
Well, right.....but even the people who don't have five recordings probably
know what it sounds like, and whether they'll like it. Or even just know that
it's a classic piece with a pretty name that they "should" own.
Wait, we're arguing the same point, aren't we?
Well, just stick an "also" in up there somewhere.
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krj
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response 31 of 38:
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Jul 17 06:03 UTC 2000 |
NP: a Maria Tipo CD which I got in the mail this week. This is an
Italian CD, ordered from www.alapage.com in France during their big
June sale. The program is Mozart sonatas, a Beethoven sonata, and
some stuff by Chopin. Solo piano, of course, in front of an audience.
I rather like her expressiveness and will look to see what else I can find
by her. Information on the web is sketchy; she is from Naples, and one
brief mention described her as being in the Italian tradition of Toscanini,
which I think means that she takes great liberties with tempos and meter.
She won her first major prize in 1952 but won several more in the late
1990s, so she must be closing in on 70 years old. The CD I have is an
analog recording from 1979.
(I started my quest for Maria Tipo almost a year ago, see resp:11 above.)
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krj
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response 32 of 38:
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Jul 18 06:36 UTC 2000 |
I just peeked in at amazon.co.uk -- been doing a lot of online CD
browsing today -- and I see that they now carry a two-CD set of
Maria Tipo playing Clementi sonatas. This is on the Warner Fonit
Centra label -- I'm not even sure what country this disc would be
from, Italy maybe? It's a two CD set so it's not clear that it would
be the same performance as the EMI cd I was originally searching for.
This is a 2000 release.
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krj
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response 33 of 38:
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Jan 14 04:21 UTC 2001 |
NP: a disc of oboe concertos by Johann Wilhelm Hertel. I heard one of
these on the Michigan State classical radio station in late December
and I liked it enough to scribble down the name. Hertel's life
overlaps with Bach's, I think, 1727-1789, and so these are pretty
baroque sounding. I never heard of Hertel before and the liner notes
indicate that he's not often rememebered now.
The lead oboe player on this German issue from 1991 is Burkhard
Glaetzner. This item might be going out of print; I had a copy in
my shopping cart at Amazon.com and the next day it was no longer
in my shopping cart, and all traces of the disk had vanished from
Amazon. I got it (for $5 less!) from cdconnection.com.
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dbratman
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response 34 of 38:
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Jan 17 03:24 UTC 2001 |
With a birthdate of 1727, Hertel was close in age to Haydn, and of a
very different generation to Bach. (By the time Bach died, in 1750,
Baroque music was already considered quaint and old-fashioned.) But I
don't know his music and can't say more of him than that.
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krj
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response 35 of 38:
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Jan 17 04:29 UTC 2001 |
Yeah, Leslie pointed that out, and she says it's Classical in sound.
Never trust anything you read on the Internet.
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happyboy
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response 36 of 38:
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Jan 17 11:59 UTC 2001 |
including resp: 35 ? ;)
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orinoco
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response 37 of 38:
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Jan 18 03:38 UTC 2001 |
Especially response 35.
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dbratman
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response 38 of 38:
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Jan 18 21:21 UTC 2001 |
Ba-dum. Very early Haydn (before 1760) can still have a faintly
Baroquish tinge to it, especially to the untutored ear. Could apply to
Hertel, depending on when he wrote what you heard.
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