Reinhard Goebel's Archiv box set

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  • richardfinegold
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    • Sep 2012
    • 7714

    #16
    Originally posted by MickyD View Post

    Yes, that is the one drawback about boxes like this. I'm fortunate in that I have most of the original releases with all the notes. I often think that companies such as DG should realise that serious collectors - and you would be one to go for a box this big - would happily pay a bit extra for those precious notes. They are such an important part of a release like this.
    They should put the original notes on a website and provide a link

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    • MickyD
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      • Nov 2010
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      #17
      Well that would help, but I still believe that anoraks like me appreciate the printed page with their CDs!

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      • AuntDaisy
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        • Jun 2018
        • 1716

        #18
        Originally posted by MickyD View Post
        Well that would help, but I still believe that anoraks like me appreciate the printed page with their CDs!

        You'd think a 200 page RG booklet would have space for them.
        Although, sometimes you can find scans of booklets on the Naxos Music Library (which I access via our local Library).

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        • MickyD
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          • Nov 2010
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          #19
          Indeed, that seems like a wasted opportunity. I haven't seen the book yet as it is my Christmas present! Is it well done?

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          • AuntDaisy
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            • Jun 2018
            • 1716

            #20
            Originally posted by MickyD View Post
            Indeed, that seems like a wasted opportunity. I haven't seen the book yet as it is my Christmas present! Is it well done?
            Yes & no (helpful as ever).
            There are track listings, performer & recording information and lots of photographs. The "I was a troublemaker" interview is interesting, as is the "Early Music as New Music" essay, but I'd rather have had the original booklets from the CDs.
            It's still a wonderful set and, unlike other forumites, I only had a few of the disks already. It's also quite compact (& shelf space is always a problem).
            Still, slowly, working my way through them...

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            • MickyD
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              • Nov 2010
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              #21
              Thanks for that, I'm looking forward to Christmas morning! I gather there is also an extra CD of an interview with Goebel...is it in English?

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              • AuntDaisy
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                • Jun 2018
                • 1716

                #22
                Originally posted by MickyD View Post
                Thanks for that, I'm looking forward to Christmas morning! I gather there is also an extra CD of an interview with Goebel...is it in English?
                Sadly not, it's in German & RH speaks very quickly / enthusiastically - there are musical extracts in between. (I listened to it earlier, my schoolboy German really wasn't up to it.)

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                • richardfinegold
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                  • Sep 2012
                  • 7714

                  #23
                  Originally posted by MickyD View Post
                  Well that would help, but I still believe that anoraks like me appreciate the printed page with their CDs!
                  That would be preferred but at least putting them on the web would make them available in some form. To have them completely unavailable is frustrating. There are several dozen discs here by unknown composers, many of whom were exhumed by MAK

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                  • MickyD
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 4797

                    #24
                    Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post

                    That would be preferred but at least putting them on the web would make them available in some form. To have them completely unavailable is frustrating. There are several dozen discs here by unknown composers, many of whom were exhumed by MAK
                    I quite agree, some of the composers certainly aren't household names. It's really rather disrespectful of DG to it's customers to be so cavalier, even more so when they originally went to the trouble and expense of providing good notes for the original issues. How can they justify not providing anything at all?

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                    • AuntDaisy
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                      • Jun 2018
                      • 1716

                      #25
                      Originally posted by MickyD View Post
                      I quite agree, some of the composers certainly aren't household names. It's really rather disrespectful of DG to it's customers to be so cavalier, even more so when they originally went to the trouble and expense of providing good notes for the original issues. How can they justify not providing anything at all?

                      The 5 CD Bach Kammermusik set came with a lovely 36 page booklet - but I'm keeping the original Archiv discs, even though they're now duplicates.
                      Yes, a CD with PDFs of the booklets would be easy for them to do - I also like richardfinegold's web idea (Argo did it for their Shakespeare box - & it corrected the printed booklet errors).

                      It's much the same with the Pinnock box, although there is a much bigger (& far more interesting) booklet.

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                      • kernelbogey
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 5799

                        #26
                        "Actuellement indisponible"....
                        I very nearly broke my self--imposed Amazon ban....

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                        • MickyD
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 4797

                          #27
                          Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                          "Actuellement indisponible"....
                          I very nearly broke my self--imposed Amazon ban....
                          Oh that's a shame, looks like they've sold out at that price... maybe I should ask for commission !😂

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