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Sam Cogley

Sam Cogley

Last of the Time Lords
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I've been finding a lot of interesting stuff lately. As long as it's in good shape, I'll grab pretty much anything on one of my "big four" labels - RCA Red Seal, Columbia, DGG and Philips. Tonight, I picked up the book and the first three volumes of the DGG Beethoven Bicentennial set from 1970 - all for $10. Now I just need to find volumes 4-17 cheap... :D

I'm going to try to get a list of my Columbia 6-eyes and RCA Shaded Dogs up in this thread. I'm not planning to sell any of them, but it would be nice to know if any of them are desirable issues.
 
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Sam, keep your eyes open for MHS (Musical Heritage Society) also, very nice recordings. :thmbsp:
 
Jinx -- I was just going to say that about MHS. :D I have quite a few and almost all have great sound and some really fantastic, unusual material. Although some have a really annoying rumble.

Also Nonesuch can be good. I tend to pick up any of those just on principle because they usually feature really interesting material (e.g., medieval harp music--just found that one at Goodwill earlier this week) and are reasonably well recorded. You can't miss the bright colors of their illustrated jackets, either. :D

Anyway, good hunting!

Michael
 
Telefunken, Erato, and Argo. Grab'em when you see'em.

BTW: Columbia pressed most of the MHS LPs.
 
Divotdog said:
Sam, keep your eyes open for MHS (Musical Heritage Society) also, very nice recordings. :thmbsp:
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I actually passed on one of those last night at a flea market, I wasn't familiar with the name.

merrylander said:
Funny, I have the DG Beethoven Bicentennial and there are ony ten volumes.
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Check the listings on eBay - the complete set appears to be 17 volumes, 5 LPs each.

pmsummer said:
Telefunken, Erato, and Argo. Grab'em when you see'em.

BTW: Columbia pressed most of the MHS LPs.
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I do have one Telefunken disc, but they don't turn up often around here. Erato and Argo I've never seen, but I'll put them on my mental "to grab" list.

hifi_nut said:
Grab any Mercury Living Presence you can find. In my experience they are all great.
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I've run across very few of those at all, and even fewer in good shape.
 
merrylander said:
Funny, I have the DG Beethoven Bicentennial and there are ony ten volumes.
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There are 17 sets of 5 LPs each, 85 total, pressed in Italy and sold by the bushel. Market value is about $1 per LP, and most sets were never played. The music and playing is good, but the masterings and pressings are mediocre.
 
vinyl1 said:
There are 17 sets of 5 LPs each, 85 total, pressed in Italy and sold by the bushel. Market value is about $1 per LP, and most sets were never played. The music and playing is good, but the masterings and pressings are mediocre.
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Different set, mine was pressed by Polydor in Canada from DG masters, also came with a large coffee table book on his life.
 
vinyl1 said:
There are 17 sets of 5 LPs each, 85 total, pressed in Italy and sold by the bushel. Market value is about $1 per LP, and most sets were never played. The music and playing is good, but the masterings and pressings are mediocre.
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Disappointing to hear. Considering that they're Von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic recordings (at least for my three sets) on the DGG label, I would have expected high quality.

merrylander said:
Different set, mine was pressed by Polydor in Canada from DG masters, also came with a large coffee table book on his life.
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Could be the same set, just made in Canada by Polydor. I have the book, it's the size of one of the 5-disc boxes.
 
Often overlooked, but these Everest discs were GREAT recordings AND pressings (before they became a "budget" label).

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LA CRÉATION DU MONDE
Darius Milhaud
L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT
Igor Stravinsky
The London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Group
John Carewe, cond.

Everest
 
Lest I forget... Archiv and Das Alte Werk (which are DGG and Telefunken sub-labels, respectively, focusing on the Baroque and earlier... as do I).
 
DGG Beethoven Bicentennial Collection

vinyl1 said:
There are 17 sets of 5 LPs each, 85 total, pressed in Italy and sold by the bushel. Market value is about $1 per LP, and most sets were never played. The music and playing is good, but the masterings and pressings are mediocre.
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I just picked up Volumes I, II, and III at a thrift this morning. These are all "Made in USA," as marked on box and the record label. The discs look pristine. I haven't yet listened to any. I wonder if the USA pressings might be better than the Italian ones?
 
I have a few volumes of that DGG Bicentennial collection.

1, 3, 4, 5, 9, and I think 17.

I've never played them either.

But I do buy lots of classical LP's, usually at very very cheap prices.
 
I had a great haul this week. On the road Wednesday in Tampa and hit two GW's. Came away with 30 LP's, all in excellent condition for under 20 smackers! We'll at least I think they'll all be excellent, I'm only half way thru auditioning and haven't touched the 10 disc Reader's Digest compilation yet...

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