That's the "import" version. The domestic release (i.e. cheaper) probably won't be for several months later. That's been the pattern with the Zinman cycle. Very strange.
Knowing that for some "cost is no object", I thought there be might be some interest in knowing it was available in the US in a month.
I plan to wait to buy it when the price is lower. Having heard the Cookes, Wheeler, Carpenter, Mazzetti, and the Barshai completions, I'm not in a hurry to get a Carpenter. However, setting sonics aside, I'll be very interested to hear the assessment of others here before getting this one.
Lately I've been listening to this cycle backwards. I'm convinced that Zinman was very intentional about his approach to the M9 in the context of those that preceded it. Some may recall my initial negative assessment. I thought the first movement was practically skeletal, the inner pair rather conventional, and the last movement cold. As a stand-alone performance, it left me without solace, and now I think that is exactly what Zinman intended.
With that in mind, I anticipate that his M10
might be quite kaleidoscopic, a counter the emptiness of his M9. As I vaguely recall, the Carpenter was 'busier' than the Cooke verisions that I favor. As I wrote, I'll be interested to read what others think.
