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[Draško]

That's a must. Is any info available? I presume Prokofiev is live First with Ancerl which used to be on Praga, if so that is superb performance. It would be fantastic if Ravel happened to be the left hand, but doubt it.

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These anniversaries are a bonanza for Record companies.  But not all composers are considered as equals.   It is Gounod 200th birthday anniversary.  Where are the reissues, the box sets and the new release of rarely performed works.  ZILCH

Well, you're only 'preaching to the choir' my friend. Samuel Barber and William Schuman both shared 100 year anniversaries in 2010 and where were the box sets in honor of them? Anyway, I know nothing of Gounod's music, except his two symphonies, which I didn't really enjoy all that much. But, hey, all of this Debussy coming out, I'm definitely not going to complain since he's one of my favorite composers.

[Zeus]

Yikes - I have almost zero Gounod in my collection! Time to look for a composer thread and see what I ought to have.

TD - uh... uh... oh nevermind.  Carry on.

[Todd]

That's a must. Is any info available?

Amazon Product Description (bold added):

The highly valued discography of Ivan Moravec (1930-2015), one of the 20th century piano legends, comes to a great extent from recording studios. However, thanks to radio microphones some of his remarkable concert performances in Prague concert halls could be retrieved as well. From 1962 on, he performed twenty times at the Prague Spring festival alone. He played Prokofievs first concerto at the festival in May 1967 and the recording captures one of the top and also one of the last performances of Karel Anerl with the Czech Philharmonics before his leaving for Toronto. The Ravel recording from May 1974 represents another unforgettable musical experience and no doubt also one of the best Ravel creations ever performed by Moravec. All three recordings are published for the first time; what is more, the one of the Grieg concert played in December 1984 is the only recording made public by the virtuoso pianist. Microphones have captured Ivan Moravec in his top shape, his play possessing romantic flight, ferocity and a wide range of timbre nuances on the one hand, and remarkable preciseness on the other. At every moment, Moravec is deeply sunk in the substance of the work he performs

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Coming in late March:

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April:

[Draško]

Amazon Product Description (bold added):

The highly valued discography of Ivan Moravec (1930-2015), one of the 20th century piano legends, comes to a great extent from recording studios. However, thanks to radio microphones some of his remarkable concert performances in Prague concert halls could be retrieved as well. From 1962 on, he performed twenty times at the Prague Spring festival alone. He played Prokofievs first concerto at the festival in May 1967 and the recording captures one of the top and also one of the last performances of Karel Anerl with the Czech Philharmonics before his leaving for Toronto. The Ravel recording from May 1974 represents another unforgettable musical experience and no doubt also one of the best Ravel creations ever performed by Moravec. All three recordings are published for the first time; what is more, the one of the Grieg concert played in December 1984 is the only recording made public by the virtuoso pianist. Microphones have captured Ivan Moravec in his top shape, his play possessing romantic flight, ferocity and a wide range of timbre nuances on the one hand, and remarkable preciseness on the other. At every moment, Moravec is deeply sunk in the substance of the work he performs

Thank you. That's then different and indeed previously unreleased Prokofiev 1st. The one on Praga is dated 11.1962.   

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March:

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Late March/Early April:

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Here's one for Scarpia:

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Late April:

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May:

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Sorry about the fragmentary nature of the previous posts, folks. I was simply posting here what I thought was interesting as I discovered the releases through searching Presto Classical.

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It appears BR Klassik has cobbled together enough recordings for a Mahler cycle (w/ the exclusion of the 10th):

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8426498--mahler-symphony-no-1-in-d-major-titan-etc

[Alek Hidell]

Yes. That you're not looking at a forest fire. The issue being what YOU decided to infer. I don't know what evidence you think you have that the forest is burning.

Okay, let's look again.



Those are definitely trees on the left side of the photo, and they appear to be in some kind of wooded area. The bottom right portion of the photo appears to be burning trees, and the smoke, irrespective of its color, lends mightily to that impression.

What do you see, ørfeo? And while we're at it, why are you such a prickly sonofabitch?

[Madiel]

You're the one who jumped in declaring a cover offensive. I don't see how that makes me prickly, except that I chose not to stand by while you made such claims. 

But then, we live in an age where people don't like being challenged and the first person to open their mouth is right by default. Meaning the person who declares a cloud of purple smoke is a forest fire rather than say, part of a dreamlike fairytale landscape, can normally have their moral outrage without anyone asking them to reflect on the rationality of that view.

Even if that is something on fire on the right rather than something weirdly coloured to go with the other weird colours, it's not a literal image of arson. 

[Alek Hidell]

You’re the one who jumped in declaring a cover offensive. I don’t see how that makes me prickly, except that I chose not to stand by while you made such claims.

I said it was borderline offensive, and if it is a forest fire, I stand by that. People in, say, California, who have lost their homes, etc., due to such fires (and recently at that) might think it a bit flippant to use such an image for an album cover. If you don't find it offensive, that's fine - I'm not going to go on and on about it. I would still like to know what you think is depicted on the album cover, though.

I wouldn't call you prickly if this were a one-off incident. But it isn't. You get your knickers in a twist about minor things all the time. Just within the last couple of days you started a row with another poster - I think it was Baron Scarpia - who made a mild joke about an album cover with Beethoven symphonies "4/5," and for some reason you reacted as if he were serious - almost as if it offended you - and you had to set him straight. His final response to you - the eye-rolling emoji - was entirely apropos.

EDIT: I see you added to your post while I was typing this response. All I'll add to mine is that I didn't make a final pronunciamento, I made it conditional by saying "if" and asking if I was perceiving the cover correctly.

[Madiel]

I wouldn't call you prickly if this were a one-off incident. But it isn't. You get your knickers in a twist about minor things all the time. Just within the last couple of days you started a row with another poster - I think it was Baron Scarpia - who made a mild joke about an album cover with Beethoven symphonies "4/5," and for some reason you reacted as if he were serious - almost as if it offended you - and you had to set him straight. His final response to you - the eye-rolling emoji - was entirely apropos.

What offended me was how stupid his attempt at a joke was. He was trying to be clever and failing dismally. Making a joke about Symphony 4/5 when the cover didn't say that.

People who try to show they're cleverer than somebody else (in this particular case, Baron Scarpia trying to be cleverer than the cover designer) while actually being wrong are, indeed, quite high on the list of things I find offensive. Making mistakes is not a problem, but trying to put yourself above others while making mistakes is something I find profoundly irritating.

Of course I don't think he was seriously suggesting there's such a thing as symphony 0.8. But what he was trying to do was suggest that the cover designer had given the impression there was a symphony 0.8. Which was completely unfair to the cover designer, who had not written "Symphony 4/5" at all.

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I wouldn't call you prickly if this were a one-off incident. But it isn't. You get your knickers in a twist about minor things all the time. Just within the last couple of days you started a row with another poster - I think it was Baron Scarpia - who made a mild joke about an album cover with Beethoven symphonies "4/5," and for some reason you reacted as if he were serious - almost as if it offended you - and you had to set him straight. His final response to you - the eye-rolling emoji - was entirely apropos.

To the bolded text, this seems to be this member's most annoying personality trait and, yes, it's a personality trait because my own incident, separate from yours obviously, involved him not giving a damn about my feelings and, more importantly, the content within the posts I made to him. I told him (to paraphrase) "I don't want to talk about it or discuss this any further with you..." only to be greeted with an insulting response that disregarded these feelings I expressed all in some kind of pursuit for me to argue with him further, which I'm not going to do and never will do again. You're certainly not alone in your feelings here and it has been expressed elsewhere as you witnessed for yourself.

[Madiel]

To the bolded text, this seems to be this member's most annoying personality trait and, yes, it's a personality trait because my own incident, separate from yours obviously, involved him not giving a damn about my feelings and, more importantly, the content within the posts I made to him. I told him (to paraphrase) "I don't want to talk about it or discuss this any further with you..." only to be greeted with an insulting response that disregarded these feelings I expressed all in some kind of pursuit for me to argue with him further, which I'm not going to do and never will do again. You're certainly not alone in your feelings here and it has been expressed elsewhere as you witnessed for yourself.

I am sorry you found my response insulting.