John Smyth wrote: >Richard writes: > >> ...but I was surprised to find a SACD containing Szell versions >> of Pictures, L'Arlesienne and Peer Gynt. Presumably all contain >> the same 1963 recording of Pictures, appropriately tweaked. Does >> this mean the companies are expecting us to buy hideously >> expensive SACDs of all the stuff that's already been reissued on >> CD? Here's one person who won't be! > >OK, let me get this straight.:) > >No performance after 1960 is ever good enough for you guys, Don't know anyone who thinks this. 1970 maybe....:-) >yet when a company tries to give you the best remasterings they can >from those wonderful days of yore, no one will pay 'cause it's too >expensive. My goodness. Not exactly. Some of these recordings (e.g. the EMI GROC) have been issued on CD then reissued and then "remastered and reissued" - or some similar sequence. The companies evidently expect us to fork out several times over for the same recording, while others languish in their vaults. Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>