And ImportCD.Com will not export the sets...
On 2013-03-13 4:43 PM, Louis Hone wrote:
> The Canadian branch of Amazon (amazon.ca) is adevertising it at $316.91.
> Three times what I paid for the first set. Nice try but they won't get my
> $.
>
> Louis
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> 2013/3/13 Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> The Amazon pre-order price you linked to shows at $238.35. Is there
>> another page? The vinyl box is $186.
>>
>> Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] New Mercury Living Presence box sets
>> From: Randy Lane <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Wed, March 13, 2013 2:39 pm
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> The Amazon.com listing has shown up recently.
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B7364H2
>>
>> Originally showed up there a little over a week ago with a release date
>> of
>> 04/30/2013.
>> Release date is now 05/14/2013.
>> It showed up at ImportCds.com on 02/28/2013 with a release date
>> of 04/16/2013. The release date was changed there a few days later to
>> 04/30/2013, and is now, just like Amazon.com, 05/14/2013.
>>
>>
>> http://www.importcds.com/music/2573757/mercury-living-presence-the-collectors-edition-vol-2
>>
>> If the price holds at the current $112.69 and the release date is not
>> pushed back yet more, I'll likely pre-order from ImportCds.com when
>> possible, which will be after 04/14/2013.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Tom Fine
>> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>
>>> Since we have a number of music collectors in ARSC, I thought this an
>>> appropriate forum to announce two new Mercury Living Presence box sets. I
>>> also want to directly credit contacts made through ARSC for new release,
>>> the first mass-market release, of a rare recording.
>>>
>>> Following the success of the 2011-2012 Mercury Living Presence 51-CD box
>>> sets (the first version was released only in Asia, a slightly modified
>>> version was released worldwide last March, both are now completely sold
>> out
>>> of the retail channels) and 2012 6LP box (sold out in less than 6
>> months),
>>> UMG/Decca Classics is releasing a new 55-CD box and then a new 6LP
>>> collector box. As in the case of the previous box set, the new box uses
>>> digital masters made by the original producer (my mother) in 1990s, from
>>> first-generation master tapes. The new box includes almost all of the
>>> remaining 1990s CDs, which have been out of print for a few years now.
>>>
>>> Now here's the exciting news for collectors. There are two bonus discs in
>>> the new box set:
>>>
>>> 1. the 1953 mono "Rite of Spring" recording by Dorati/Minneapolis. This
>>> remaster is different from the Rite 100th anniversary box set, I think it
>>> sounds considerably better. The original George Maas cover graphics, not
>>> seen since the 1950s, are also reproduced. This is one of the fastest and
>>> most furious versions of the "Rite" ever recorded.
>>>
>>> 2. the 1969 world premiere recording of John Corigliano's Piano Concerto,
>>> performed by those who commissioned and premiered the work, pianist Hilde
>>> Somer and the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Victor
>>> Alessandro. This Mercury recording was produced by Richard Campbell and
>>> engineered by Marc Aubort. The remaster was made from the original first
>>> generation master tape. An added bonus is a rare interview with composer
>>> Corigliano and pianist Somer by the late Paul Hume, music critic of the
>>> Washington Post. The interview was released on a radio-promo LP by
>> Mercury.
>>> Thanks to ARSC contacts, I was able to track down a copy of the LP at the
>>> NYPL Rodgers & Hammerstein archive. The archive staff made a great
>> transfer
>>> and thus this long-lost audio is now available to mass-market collectors.
>>> The master tape, made by Mercury's marketing department, is long gone.
>>>
>>> The 173-page booklet includes details about all the CDs in the box, all
>>> the recording/equipment/personnel data included in the original CD
>> booklets
>>> (this was not included in the first box set). Also, Mike Gray wrote a
>> great
>>> history of Mercury Living Presence, and the article I wrote for TapeOp
>>> Magazine about Mercury's microphone techniques is reproduced.
>>>
>>> The 6LP box, which will be released in the late spring, includes reissues
>>> of: "Vienna 1908-1914" (pieces by Schoenberg, Webern and Berg by
>>> Dorati/LSO); Beethoven 7th by Dorati/LSO; "Dada/Surrealism" (pieces by
>>> Milhaud, Francaix, Auric and Satie by Dorati/LSO; includes the rare
>>> original LP cover art); Saint-Saens 3rd (Organ) Symphony by Paray/Detroit
>>> with Marcel Dupre; Chadwick "Symphonic Sketches" by Hanson/ERO; and
>>> Sessions "Black Maskers"/McPhee "Tabuh-Tabuhan" by Hanson/ERO.
>>>
>>> UMG/Decca Classics did a great job on these new box sets. They were very
>>> open to input and quality-control by me and my brothers, and I think they
>>> maintained the high standard for Mercury Living Presence releases that my
>>> mother established. For collectors, this will be another opportunity to
>> get
>>> a lot of high-quality music for very low cost per CD (about 1/5 or less
>> the
>>> cost of the original 1990s discs).
>>>
>>> When Decca Classics adds some marketing material on their website, I'll
>>> post the links.
>>>
>>> -- Tom Fine
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