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Paypal has a very large fee.  Significantly higher than directly using credit.

I didn't know this until RvB educated me about this. From now on I will avoid Paypal, because I want my money to go to the seller/artist rather than a middle hand.

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I didn't know this until RvB educated me about this. From now on I will avoid Paypal, because I want my money to go to the seller/artist rather than a middle hand.

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[Brian]

I didn't know this until RvB educated me about this. From now on I will avoid Paypal, because I want my money to go to the seller/artist rather than a middle hand.

Yeah, I believe he has said that on eClassical, the old albums that are only 40-50 minutes long, they actually make $0.00 in profit because of PayPal's big cut of the sale.

That stamp thing is hilarious   

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Finally was able to track down and buy all of the Kabalevsky volumes on Olympia:

[classicalgeek]

Finally was able to track down and buy all of the Kabalevsky volumes on Olympia:

Nice haul, John! This has got to be a sizable chunk of Kabalevsky's oeuvre. Very impressive!

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Nice haul, John! This has got to be a sizable chunk of Kabalevsky's oeuvre. Very impressive!

Thanks, classicalgeek. I owned a good bit of Kabalevsky already, but I really wanted some Soviet Era recordings.

[Madiel]

Just ordered from different sources, and Dear God I sincerely hope that they both manage to get here, because if only one falls through it's a pain in the butt.

[Karl Henning]

Just ordered from different sources, and Dear God I sincerely hope that they both manage to get here, because if only one falls through it's a pain in the butt.

Good luck!

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Just bought:

[Mapman]

I'd pre-ordered this from Target, and it arrived today.

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I'd pre-ordered this from Target, and it arrived today.

Looks like an interesting set, but I'm not impressed with Andris Nelsons as a conductor, so I'm definitely going to pass. Not that he could measure up to conductors like Karajan, Kempe, Sinopoli, Mehta et. al. in Strauss anyway. Yeah, I'm pretty biased.

[Symphonic Addict]

Just bought:

Great, John! Do you own his other symphonies? We definitely need a record label that embraces the project of a complete cycle.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Nice haul, John! This has got to be a sizable chunk of Kabalevsky's oeuvre. Very impressive!

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Great, John! Do you own his other symphonies? We definitely need a record label that embraces the project of a complete cycle.

I own two recordings of Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (Venzago on BIS and Westerberg/Blomstedt on Phono Suecia). I also own the recording of the ballet Orpheus in Town (also on Phono Suecia).

[JBS]

Ordered from Presto this morning


Dora Pejačević: Piano Concerto & Symphony
SACD, quantity: 1, Chandos CHSA 5299

British Piano Concertos
CD, quantity: 1, Lyrita SRCD407

Vivaldi & Bach: 12 Concertos, Op. 3 'l'estro Armonico'
2 CDs, quantity: 1, Naive OP7367

Vladigerov: String Concertos
2 CDs, quantity: 1, Capriccio C8064

Aaron Jay Kernis & James Newton Howard: Violin
Concertos
CD, quantity: 1, Onyx ONYX4189

The Vivaldi/Bach is the brand new release from Fabio Biondi. The Kernis/Howard features James Ehnes as soloist.

The other three are the CDs that have been discussed on GMG recently.

[Mapman]

Looks like an interesting set, but I'm not impressed with Andris Nelsons as a conductor, so I'm definitely going to pass. Not that he could measure up to conductors like Karajan, Kempe, Sinopoli, Mehta et. al. in Strauss anyway. Yeah, I'm pretty biased.

I'm not entirely sure what to expect. I'll probably post some comments in the next few weeks as I listen, although I have not heard all of the great recordings. Based on where my family and I are from and have lived, I consider Philadelphia, Detroit, and Boston to be my "local" orchestras. So I'm always interested in new releases of those orchestras (and it might give the musicians a few cents).

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I'm not entirely sure what to expect. I'll probably post some comments in the next few weeks as I listen, although I have not heard all of the great recordings. Based on where my family and I are from and have lived, I consider Philadelphia, Detroit, and Boston to be my "local" orchestras. So I'm always interested in new releases of those orchestras (and it might give the musicians a few cents).

One thing you can count on with this new Strauss Nelsons set: stellar sonics. Anyway, keep me posted as I'm always curious to read others' remarks on conductors I don't particularly enjoy.

[André]

Just bought:

Both are excellent. Few SQ corpuses have given me as much pleasure as Rosenberg's  .

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Both are excellent. Few SQ corpuses have given me as much pleasure as Rosenberg's  .

Oh, very good to read, Andre.

[vandermolen]

Both are excellent. Few SQ corpuses have given me as much pleasure as Rosenberg's  .

Wow! Fabulous André. I love Rosenberg's music. I have the 4th Symphony but don't know the SQ's at all. I am very fond of symphonies 2 'Grave',3,4 and 6 as well as 'The Holy Night' which I find very moving.