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Post by bissie March 19, 2015 (3931 of 4131)
samayoeruorandajin said:

Excuuuuse me. A slip of the finger. No where else on these threads have I made that mistake.

Better that than the other way round. Ukko would have meant "old man" (read: old fart).

Robert

Post by samayoeruorandajin March 19, 2015 (3932 of 4131)
Well, they are on my list to buy! Sibelius is one of my top 4 composers and I love Maestro Kamu's way with Sibelius.

Post by Simon V. March 19, 2015 (3933 of 4131)
bissie said:

Better that than the other way round. Ukko would have meant "old man" (read: old fart).

I've been watching a Norwegian film about a man named Odd.

Do you have any plans, by the way, to reissue, with new material, those pieces on "The Sound of Sibelius" that didn't make it onto the Lemminkäinen/Wood-Nymph disc? It'd be great to have super-audio accounts of En saga and Pohjola's Daughter from BIS.

Post by samayoeruorandajin March 19, 2015 (3934 of 4131)
I agree.

Post by bissie March 19, 2015 (3935 of 4131)
Simon V. said:

I've been watching a Norwegian film about a man named Odd.

Do you have any plans, by the way, to reissue, with new material, those pieces on "The Sound of Sibelius" that didn't make it onto the Lemminkäinen/Wood-Nymph disc? It'd be great to have super-audio accounts of En saga and Pohjola's Daughter from BIS.

Maybe I am horribly daft, but I don't understand this. The pieces on 1645 Sound of Sibelius ARE on SACD (1645 being an SACD) so why should we basically rerecord them? Re En saga I agree, but Tapiola we already have in SACD quality - on 1945.

Robert

Post by Simon V. March 19, 2015 (3936 of 4131)
bissie said:

Maybe I am horribly daft, but I don't understand this. The pieces on 1645 Sound of Sibelius ARE on SACD (1645 being an SACD) so why should we basically rerecord them? Re En saga I agree, but Tapiola we already have in SACD quality - on 1945.

I didn't explain myself very well. I'll try again:

Three of the recordings from BIS-1645 ("The Sound of Sibelius")—namely The Wood-Nymph, The Swan of Tuonela, and Lemminkäinen's Return—were re-released on BIS-1745 together with the remaining two pieces from the Lemminkäinen Suite. Because of this overlap (amounting to half of the material on each disc), I'm not inclined to buy BIS-1645. However, if you were to issue a disc that combined the five remaining recordings from BIS-1645—Finlandia, the Karelia Suite, Scene with Cranes, Spring Song, and Valse triste—with new recordings of, say, En saga and Pohjola's Daughter (I didn't mention Tapiola), I'd snap it up.

What I'm saying is that, since you released BIS-1745, "The Sound of Sibelius" has the appearance of a sampler and isn't really a very attractive proposition for a collector.

I hope that's clearer.

Post by bissie March 19, 2015 (3937 of 4131)
Simon V. said:

I didn't explain myself very well. I'll try again:

Three of the recordings from BIS-1645 ("The Sound of Sibelius")—namely The Wood-Nymph, The Swan of Tuonela, and Lemminkäinen's Return—were re-released on BIS-1745 together with the remaining two pieces from the Lemminkäinen Suite. Because of this overlap (amounting to half of the material on each disc), I'm not inclined to buy BIS-1645. However, if you were to issue a disc that combined the five remaining recordings from BIS-1645—Finlandia, the Karelia Suite, Scene with Cranes, Spring Song, and Valse triste—with new recordings of, say, En saga and Pohjola's Daughter (I didn't mention Tapiola), I'd snap it up.

What I'm saying is that, since you released BIS-1745, "The Sound of Sibelius" has the appearance of a sampler and isn't really a very attractive proposition for a collector.

I hope that's clearer.

Yes, it is, and your point is totally valid, and I did mix up Pohjola and Tapiola. Not very bright of me...
Now, if I did what you ask, we would have the buyer that indeed has snapped up 1645, but wanted the rest of the new one, with exactly the same reasoning. I think I must concede that, however I turn, I have my butt behind me and leave things as they are. There's always the chance to pick up those pieces as high-res download, especially so, when soon Mch download will become a reality.

Robert

Post by Chris from Lafayette March 20, 2015 (3938 of 4131)
bissie said:

. . .

There's always the chance to pick up those pieces as high-res download, especially so, when soon Mch download will become a reality.

Yeay! ;-)

Post by Simon V. March 20, 2015 (3939 of 4131)
bissie said:

Now, if I did what you ask, we would have the buyer that indeed has snapped up 1645, but wanted the rest of the new one, with exactly the same reasoning. . . . There's always the chance to pick up those pieces as high-res download, especially so, when soon Mch download will become a reality.

Fair points both. Although I must be one of the younger contributors to this forum, I still think of records (in the generic sense) as discrete, aesthetically unified—and physical—objects. But I'm an anomaly and soon no one will cater to me!

At the risk of coming across as a nag, could I try asking you again about the status of the Opening Doors series?

Post by scotttiger March 23, 2015 (3940 of 4131)
i've been watchting h&b, arkiv, prest, etc, and haven't seen any sacd packagings of the Suzuki Bach cantatas. thought maybe there would be something like the vol 1-5 sets. any plans?

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