On 28/01/2012, Tom Fine wrote:
> It's now available for pre-sale on Amazon:
> http://www.amazon.com/Mercury-Living-Presence-Boxed-Set/dp/B005XBA9Y8/tomslinx
>
> Decca Classics did a really nice job on this box set, in my opinion.
> The booklet is mostly comprised of the first-person history written
> for the short-lived "You Are There" sampler set, including all the
> archival photos. The CD's are re-pressings of the 1990's issues, many
> of which have been out of print for several years. All CD's were
> mastered by the original producer from the original tapes using an
> all-tube analog playback and 3-2 mix chain. This price point per-CD is
> vastly discounted from the original single-CD issues. The packaging is
> similar to "The Decca Sound" box, which appears to have sold out in
> less than a year of availability.
>
> Given the current state of the music business, and on-going seemingly
> irreversable trends in business and culture, this might be the last
> chance to buy a lot of this material on CD. In my opinion, Decca
> Classics has done a good job picking titles to include in the box and
> re-using the You Are There book (which wasn't sold widely in the US
> but was well-marketed and more widely known in Europe and Asia). And,
> you pay less than 1/3 the original price per CD for exactly the same
> musical/sonic product.
>
> I'm very excited to see all of these titles back in print and hope
> they connect with a new generation of Mercury Living Presence fans
> around the world. Hopefully, it will be successful enough that the
> other 50+ Mercury Living Presence titles on CD get back into print.
>
70+ I think.
There are also some Mercury LPs that were not issued on CD, such as the
Brahms Horn Trio.
> -- Tom Fine
Regards
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Don Cox
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