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]>