Re: GG: The Unpublished Recordings of Glenn Gould

[Bradley P Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Bradley P Lehman wrote:

> - Melodram [Brahms 1 with Bernstein]

p.s. I think this one was also briefly on Arkadia.  But now it's readily
available on Sony anyway.

The other GG Brahms 1 that definitely needs to come back is the 1962 with
Baltimore/Adler that was on Music & Arts.  Strikingly different from the
one with Bernstein.  Maybe Sony could make a disc that has that and the
Brandenburg 5, also 1962, also Baltimore/Adler.  Just a smidge over 70
minutes putting the two together, and a convenient pairing.

Would Sony do that so nicely, or find a way to charge double as a premium
two-disc set including some other short thing?  The empty space on the
disc makes money.  On the Beethoven 6th symphony disc, Music & Arts found
room for 10 minutes of Mendelssohn...Sony parsimoniously gives just the
symphony.  They stuck the Mendelssohn into a two-disc set that is a
slightly expanded version of a single-disc collection on M&A....  When all
this shuffling is over and timings are added up, the Sony discs are on
average considerably shorter than the M&A releases, and the buyer had to
buy at least one or two extra pieces of plastic at full price.  (Guess we
shouldn't complain too loudly, as this stuff is at least available again,
but the total price keeps going up for a person who wants all or most of
it.)

Bradley Lehman | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/ | Dayton, VA, USA