RE: Beltran bonus mini-CD -- what is it?

["Junichi Miyazawa" <walkingtune@bigfoot.com>]

Dear Tim and Minors,

In Japan, the "mini-CD" is called "CD single".
It was invented a few years later after the full-sized
CD was released: it is a substitution for EP.

I hear it is used only in Japan.  New pop songs are
released in "CD single" as a single cut.
So nowadays all the Japanese CD players for domestic
use are able to play a CD-single.

The CD single you found boundled with the Little Bach Book
is a bonus disc for promotion.  I think it is available only for 
the first impression.  The way of promotion is not really
common, but Sony seems to like doing that.

As a matter of fact, I don't have the Little Bach Book as you
have.  The CD-single I have boundled with Gould's Mozart best
album must be the same one:

[1]  "Aria" from Bach's Goldberg Variations (rec.1981)/GG
[2]  Mozart's Sonata No.8 (1st mov.) /GG
[3]  Mozart's Sonata No. 11 (3rd mov.)/ GG
[4]  Bach's Italian Concerto(3rd mov.) / GG
[5]  Horowitz's Carmen Fantasy / Horowitz
[6]  Schuman's Arabesque / Horowitz
[7]  Moonlight Sonata (1st mov) / Horowitz
[8]  Scarlatti's Sonata in A Major L.483 / Horowitz
[9]  Haydn's Sonata No. 59 (1st mov.) / Howoritz
[10] Chopin's Revolutionary Etude / Yukio Yokoyama
[11] Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 (1st mov.) / Murray Perahia
[12] Mozart's Piano Concerto No.27 (3rd mov.) / Perahia
[13] Satie's "Je tous veux"/ Philip Entremon
[14] Chopin's 2nd concerto (1st mov.)/ Hiroko Nakamura
[15] Rachmaninov's 2nd concerto (1st mov.) / Nakamura

These are from the series "Sony Best Classic 100",
and the Little Bach Book is one of them.

Personally, I don't think it is a good idea for including
GG's Mozart in the "100".  Because this series is
organized and promoted for beginners of classical music:
GG's controversial Mozart is not appropriate for beginners.  
There are many Sony (Columbia) Mozart recordings much 
more suitable for beginners.

I once told a person in charge of Sony (Tokyo).
He agreed to my opinon, but he said,
"Gould's recordings are sold much more than others'.
It is the case even for Mozart."

JM

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