Comments on On An Overgrown Path: It's a feel good day

Konrad, I should have said that if you (or anyone ...

2006-07-19T20:42:00.000+01:00

Konrad, I should have said that if you (or anyone else) buys 'Retour de Bayreuth please do share your impressions of it here with us.

Wagner transcribed for the keyboard, now that's a ...

2006-07-19T19:21:00.000+01:00

Wagner transcribed for the keyboard, now that's a thread after my own heart.

An absolutely essential disc is
Glenn Gould playing, and conducting, Wagner transcriptions.

If you don't know it you haven't lived. It can be picked up very cheaply - try "Dawn" & "Seigfried's Rhine Journey" and find out what you've been missing.

It seems that Pliable will soon become éditions Ho...

2006-07-19T01:05:00.000+01:00

It seems that Pliable will soon become éditions Hortus' most-valued customer... I wish I could buy this album as well, but Amazon does not sell it on this side of the water pond. Anyway, I downloaded (or rather "téléchargé," in good Computer French) their 2004 catalogue, and it has some quite interesting things. I couldn't help feeling attracted to "Retour de Bayreuth." I always wondered how themes from "Parsifal" would sound in an organ (a kind of obvious curiosity, I suppose), although I couldn't find out if material from "Parsifal" is used in this disc.

I still couldn't make head nor tails from the Fren...

2006-07-18T23:54:00.000+01:00

I still couldn't make head nor tails from the French website. It sure isn't the same as the UK one. I ordered it from the UK site for 14.64 bloody pounds. The most expensive CD in years.

No wonder few people buy classical music CDs.

It better be worth it!!

:-)

Ah, my account works as well? Let me try the fr si...

2006-07-18T23:35:00.000+01:00

Ah, my account works as well? Let me try the fr site to see if this will work out.

Berend, here is the UK Amazon link. Sometimes, as ...

2006-07-18T22:14:00.000+01:00

Berend, here is the UK Amazon link. Sometimes, as in this case, searching the artist works when the CD title doesn't.

I linked to Amazon France because the disc is cheaper there, and the delivery is faster. All the Amazon sites are laid out exactly the same with buttons etc in the same place, and if you have an account set up on one it works on all. You really don't need to understand the language to use it.

Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately that ...

2006-07-18T21:25:00.000+01:00

Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately that site is in French as well so I can't even read if they ship to NZ :-)

Berend, as I keep telling my wife, the best things...

2006-07-18T20:53:00.000+01:00

Berend, as I keep telling my wife, the best things in life don't come easy.

But Edition Hortus CDs are available through Amazon try this link.

In fact I bought my copy through an Amazon UK Marketplace reseller, but didn't link to Amazon for the article as they are short on information, or a liner image, for the disc.

If Edition Hortus were available in every supermarket and had a super-slick website they'd be called Naxos.

I suppose Edition Hortus receives generous state s...

2006-07-18T19:43:00.000+01:00

I suppose Edition Hortus receives generous state support, i.e. taxpayers pay no matter what business decisions they make or if they sell any CD's. For example, go to their website. If you don't have flash, you can't get it. As I couldn't get in, I suppose if you don't speak French you can't read the website.

Amazon.com doesn't stock them. Chances that you can find a classical music CD in NZ are somewhat zero, let alone pieces like Edition Hortus.

Another example of how can we make it as difficult as possible for customers to buy our products. Or in other words: socialism well learned.