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[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: Enescu's Third Symphony.




Sarge

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Arrived this morning: Enescu's Third Symphony.

Lintu has that look of "I'm serious...and I mean it".

That said, looks like great disc. Wishlisted.

[jut1972]

Time to catch up on some recent arrivals... 
These two from import CDs
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from amazon uk - stupid low price (£15) from a decent MP seller, nagiry, sorry gone now but keep an eye out if it floats your boat...
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And a couple of single CDs...
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...then found out the Gorecki was in the box above, ah well, nice present for someone!

and look what the nice folks at harmonia mundi and Howard Shore sent me
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[mc ukrneal]

Time to catch up on some recent arrivals... 
These two from import CDs
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The Rubinstein is no longer available at importcds, so you pulled the trigger just in time. I suspect the 10% off led to a run on this one.

[jut1972]

I'd ordered it a few days before the 10% deal but I think its cheap at Amazon . Com again

[Fafner]

New arrivals:

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I would love to dig into the large Furtwängler box, but I must resist till Christmas.  0:)

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: the first commercial recordings of Havergal Brian's music; newly remastered.




Sarge

[Florestan]

Yesterday I went to the closest glass-and-steel bookstore in order to buy this:


To my surprise and disappointment, it was full-priced at 7 Euro so much as I love Haydn I skipped it this time. Instead I bought these for a grand total of 9 Euro

[Harry]

Yesterday I went to the closest glass-and-steel bookstore in order to buy this:


To my surprise and disappointment, it was full-priced at 7 Euro so much as I love Haydn I skipped it this time. Instead I bought these for a grand total of 9 Euro

This new release by Brilliant cannot be called full-price. 7 euro's is the standard price for Brilliant,  and hardly full-price. And you're lucky, in the rest of Europe they are 8,99.

[Madiel]

7 Euros full price?  For an Aussie, 7 Euros is shipping costs.

[Florestan]

This new release by Brilliant cannot be called full-price. 7 euro's is the standard price for Brilliant,  and hardly full-price. And you're lucky, in the rest of Europe they are 8,99.

7 Euros full price?  For an Aussie, 7 Euros is shipping costs.

In my defense I call two witnesses: (1) I'm unemployed and (2) I live in Romania where the average salary is 360 Euro a month. Thus, for me and my wallet anything exceeding 3 Euro is full-priced. 

[Harry]

In my defense I call two witnesses: (1) I'm unemployed and (2) I live in Romania where the average salary is 360 Euro a month. Thus, for me and my wallet anything exceeding 3 Euro is full-priced. 

Yes Andrej this I understood, still, it made me chuckle just a little.

[Florestan]

Yes Andrej this I understood, still, it made me chuckle just a little.

I'm sure it did. 

[Madiel]

The joys of the international market, eh?

It's a common theme among some of the very richest Australian business leaders, lately, to complain about how uncompetitive we are because our workers are paid a far better wage than most countries.

[Florestan]

It's a common theme among some of the very richest Australian business leaders, lately, to complain about how uncompetitive we are because our workers are paid a far better wage than most countries.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

To paraphrase Bela Bartok: Competitions are for horses, not artists people.

[Karl Henning]

To paraphrase Bela Bartok: Competitions are for horses, not artists people.

I confess that, for all the apparent glorification of the participants, I've always felt that the Olympics debased the currency of the humans who are being run through their paces . . . .

[Florestan]

I confess that, for all the apparent glorification of the participants, I've always felt that the Olympics debased the currency of the humans who are being run through their paces . . . .

Well, there are competitions and competitions... To compete for being the quickest runner in 100 meters is one thing; to compete for being the richest ever to be buried in the cemetery, quite another...

[Karl Henning]

But in a sense, they are the same . . . because the distinction will later be surpassed.

[Florestan]

But in a sense, they are the same . . . because the distinction will later be surpassed.

In the long run we'll all be dead... so why all the rush? 

[Karl Henning]

I'm smelling the roses today; how about you?