JFLL
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As Doofy said a while back, "Why am I not getting these e-mails anymore, I wonder? " Has anyone ever worked out when the Classical Shop deigns to send their emails? Is it just after you've ordered something from the Chandos website? (I suspect that …
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Thanks, Nereffid. Its demise will make your job a bit harder, I should think. I don't still have the BBC Music Mag 100 Essential CDs, unfortunately. In the old days they used to publish some useful 'specials' from time to time. One I still have, and…
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"selling a used disc moves one copy of that disc, depriving the artist of one sale."
What about lending a disc to somebody? I suppose you could say that possibly deprives the artist of a sale, but it's legal (isn't it?) I'm always surpri… -
Well, I'm a bit biased because I probably added fuel to the flames with my flip spur-of-the-moment comment about Berg. Sorry about that (but if it was Raymondo taking offence, perhaps not so sorry after all). But I can't see why accuracy (aka the tr…
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Loved Tchaikovsky P.I. Didnt Ken Russell make a film of it in the 70s?
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Hey, Nereffid, why not set up a search consultancy for Emusic?!
EDIT. Still lots of grumbles on the boards, I see:
http://www.emusic.co… -
"I wonder what it was about eMusic that he didn't like? "
Maybe he was unimpressed by the laughable search facilities. It's still "cheap", I suppose, as you say. -
You're probably right about the Qobuz pricing for the Eurozone, Ronan, though not for the UK, alas. By the way, I've now had an apologetic email from Simon Perry at Hyperion, saying "The timing is unfortunate but our technicians are now looking in…
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And Harry Stottle?
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Update on problems with the Hyperion website. I was eventually able to search and download yesterday evening, but there was a new problem. After I paid, when I came to download, I got a message "Please Wait - Your download is being prepared, please …
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Very charitable of you, Nereffid, but if you want to sell music online you'd best make sure your website is working when people have the money to spend on it, or they might go elsewhere. Sounds to me from the message that the glitch should have be…
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Pity that the Hyperion site seems to have been out of action for the last two days. When you try to search or download you get technobabble like this:
"The log file for database 'HyperTest' is full. Back up the transaction log for the da… -
Music Web International has a feature "HYPERION: TOP 30 DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDATIONS" at:
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Tim,
You say: "The only drawback so far has been that if you're listening on-line, the music breaks off from time to time.". Do you mean there's a pause of say a minute between tracks sometimes, or what? I've been using Spotify for some … -
Qobuz is discussed by James Jolly in December's Gramophone magazine:
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/editorial/tune-surfing-december-2009
Dvorak's Prague Waltzes are less well-known than the Slavonic Dances, but equally tuneful. In the same vein, Smetana's Czech dances (both piano and orchestral versions) are just as delicious, and the polka in the Bartered Bride is hard to beat for …I got an offer of a free month's downloads, which in my case is 40 (this is Emu UK). I accepted, because I regard it as a reward for my "loyalty" (hollow laugh) over the last four years. (OK Katrina, I know I'm whoring.) But I must say I still think…"mother country???
/head explodes "
OK, OK. Evil Empire?"euro/sterling being the way it is, mail-order prices for CDs are tempting too. "
So you see, Nereffid, your old grandpa was right about cutting off from the mother country after all.You may be right about us being fortunate to keep our current plans for the moment, xtrev, but we've had to endure album-only with no album-capping (I don't give a toss for Sony), which has hit me (for one) quite hard, so I think we deserve somethin…Just a question. Is anyone from UK/Europe getting these free credits? Nothing about them on my account page. Or are we the poor relations, as usual?I don't think you'll be disappointed, mommio. This review says it all for me:
http://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/02/marvellous-m-vlast-czech…I wouldn't claim to be a Nereffid, but you might consider the Colin Davis version on LSO Live:
http://www.emus…A friend lent me one of the Skidmore Hyperion Latin American baroque CDs a while ago. The opening item on Fire burning in snow is called "Hanacpachap cussicuinin":
in Bolivian Baroque - WOW! Comment by JFLL September 2009Bavouzet's Debussy, "19 tracks for 12 credits (Chandos)".
19 tracks for 19 credits in Europe (here I go again).
By the way, does anyone have any idea why we don't get ANY album price-capping in Europe, when we DO get album-on…I like "ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI - Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116a". Quite nostalgic really, a cock-up on an Emusic scale. You can also click on "Who was Sergey Prokofiev?" Possible answer: not Alessandro Scarlatti.Quote-mined? A nifty bit of message-editing, surely?"I'm paying."
Nereffid, you cad!
I've made a resolution not to download works which are album-only -- it's practically forced on me anyway with a 40-per-month plan. Im damned if Im going to pay for something I already have …"JFLL, having album-only tracks doesn't detract from my main point, which was the cost of tracks in the UK. AFAIK, a four-track symphony is still going to cost someone in the UK four credits even if some of the tracks are album-only, whereas in the …What about fiction about composers? One of the best is Eduard Moricke's novella Mozart's Journey to Prague (Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag) about the journey that Mozart made from Vienna to Prague to conduct the premiere of 'Don Giovanni'.