looking forward to playing Mahler. A Portrait box x10

[stillivor]

Just taken possession of this box (still available for a snip). Contains a lot of old recordings.
Includes Mitropoulos (1), Stokowski (, mengelberg (4), and a lot of songs in pre-war performances, including one recorded in 1915, by Grete Stuckgold.

I'll take my usual time over them.

Available at around £1 per CD.


   Ivor

[Don]

From where is this available? Sounds interesting.

[stillivor]

One place is eBay.co.uk, where you can but instantly - 2 days left.

It's called Mahler. A/ein portrait

Should be googleable.


   Ivor

[chris]

From where is this available? Sounds interesting.

The local Half Price Books in my area carries this - www.halfpricebooks.com - I think it goes for $17.99 new...the two local shops had several copies each.

That being said, I haven't listened all that carefully to the set yet, but on my initial skim through I found the sonics to be pretty bad (way too much noise reduction I believe) when compared to other transfers I've heard (M9/Walter especially, M2/Fried as well, but you can't expect much from that one). That being said, it's all a matter of taste - I know some people can't stand surface noise whereas it doesn't bother me all that much if everything else sounds a bit more present.

[Don]

 I have a Half Price Books near me, I will have to look there. Thanks all for the info.

[Leo K]

I got a few of these disks from this box a couple years ago...nice way to get some historical performances cheap!

--Todd

[stillivor]

Precisely.


 

   Ivor

[barry guerrero]

Weirdly enough, or purely by coincidence, one copy of this very same box came to Rasputin Music in Mtn. View, Ca just today. I forget to take a look at what they were asking for it.

Barry

[stillivor]

The Mitropoulos is quite something, full of rubato, tho the cymbals are a disappointment.
But Mitro is fascinating in Mahler.

  Ivor