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Hi Iian and others,
Thanks for letting us know about your L'Alchimiste
success story. I should have mentioned earlier that I think more than
likely at the inexpensive mailing cost means that the item will be sent to the
US via surface (including ship) and not by the more expensive and much quicker
airmail. I've had some experience with trans-oceanic mail and if you
don't send things by air, than you really shouldn't expect the item any sooner
than, oh, three weeks. Your wait of a month sounds right to me and it's
pretty much what I expected.
Once again though, busyhubby officially gave me a
17-20 day window from time of purchase to arrival at my mailbox.
I've also heard that if you place an order
from Amazon.de for over 100 US dollars that the items get shipped via air mail
and arrive at your door within 7-10 days.
Jim (who really should get on this Mozart
thread soon. Be sure to try to track down Gould's 1950s performances
of Mozart and also try to listen to him play the early sonatas, which he claimed
to like far more than the ones that followed. There's a funny passage of
him talking about Mozart on the Mostly Strauss video in which he says he would
never claim how he played Mozart made for better Mozart, that is performances
were far too arbitrary for that claim to ring true. I take him to mean he
understood he was radically transforming Mozart, perhaps even going against the
grain of Mozart's music. Anybody have some Mozart piano sonata
recommendations? players that are trying to make better Mozart?
Schiff? Uchida? Wurtz? Jando? Gieseking? Eschenbach? How about
a fortepiano set? Maybe even on harpischord?)
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