Thanks for the heads up, Tom.  This looks like another great set.  Two
thoughts: I guess there is little hope for a set of the pre-stereo mono
Mercury LP's, which would contain a number of treasures, and I sure wish
they would do a set of the previously released Mercury SACD's.  If that has
occurred, I have missed it.  Only a handful of the latter can still be
found now, and they don't come up on Ebay very often.  Starker's SACD's
seem to still be around, and one or two more, like the wonderful Balalaika
SACD.  I bought a bunch of them when they first came out but wish now I had
got them all.  I don't even have a list of all of them that were issued.

The Mercury SACD's are great  because many of them (all?) give us the
unmixed original three channels, as with most of the RCA Living Stereo
SACD's.  That's as close as we are ever going to get to the original master
tapes.

Best,
John Haley



On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Stewart Gooderman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> According to an internet search, there were 125 CD releases (not counting
> 2 samplers and 7 multi set re-reissue compilations).
>
> The first box release contained 47, the second box, 52.
>
> That leaves 26, or about 21% of the entire series yet unre-releassed.
>
> DrG
>
> On Feb 14, 2013, at 5:44 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Randy:
> >
> > First, to answer Ben Roth's question -- no overlap between the two sets.
> Volume 2 is 53 more MLP CDs originally released as single discs (and a few
> 2CDs) in the 1990s.
> >
> > As to your question, off the top of my head I can name two three CD
> titles not in either box set:
> >
> > 1. Dorati's Brahms symphony cycle (2CD)
> > 2. Adam "Giselle" (2CD)
> > 3. Fennell conducts Gershwin and Porter pops tunes
> >
> > I think that the Paray Schumann symphonies is also not included in
> either set.
> >
> > -- Tom Fine
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Lane" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 8:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New MLP box set promo video now on YouTube
> >
> >
> >> Yes, this volume 2. Get this one too and you'll have almost all of the
> >> content of the offical MLP CDs issued by Philips under the direction of
> WCF.
> >> I am curious if Tom can tell us what is not contained in the 2 sets that
> >> makes the completeness just an "almost all".
> >>
> >> On Thursday, February 14, 2013, James Roth wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> Is this a different box set from the one I bought about 3 months ago?
> >>> At the end of the Youtube video there's a big, red numeral 2 behind the
> >>> letter R of COLLECTOR'S.
> >>> What does that indicate?
> >>>
> >>> Ben Roth
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:
> >>> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Donald Tait
> >>> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:55 PM
> >>> To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> >>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New MLP box set promo video now on YouTube
> >>>
> >>>  Thanks, Tom. Is there going to be a complete listing of the set's
> >>> contents at some point, somewhere?
> >>>
> >>>  Don Tait
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask] <javascript:;>>
> >>> To: ARSCLIST <[log in to unmask] <javascript:;>>
> >>> Sent: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 8:42 am
> >>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] New MLP box set promo video now on YouTube
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> MLP Boxset 1080p FULL<
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9vGCyRaHU&feature=youtu.be>
> >>>
> >>> this is a good description/marketing video for the new box set. Non-US
> >>> release will be in April, USA in May. 55-CD box. Pricing should be in
> line
> >>> with the previous box (about $2 per disc). New 6-LP collector box will
> be
> >>> released soon after the CD box. Manufacturing numbers will be about the
> >>> same as last time, so availability will likely be about the same --
> >>> somewhere less than a year before they're all gone. UMG/Decca did a
> really
> >>> nice job on this one. The first box was very successful and they came
> back
> >>> and raised the bar on the second one rather than stick to the exact
> same
> >>> thing.
> >>> Between the two boxes, all but a handful of the original CDs have been
> >>> brought back into print (temporarily).
> >>>
> >>> -- Tom Fine
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>