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  • Jose Iturbi Box set - 16 CDs from Sony From Hollywood

    From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 16 15:39:13 2023
    Apr introduced Jose Iturbi in a big way to the CD format
    with a 3 disc set:

    https://www.amazon.com/Victor-HMV-Solo-Recordings/dp/B01G3MV28W/

    Now Sony has expanded his CD discography with 16 CDs, called
    From Hollywood to the World - The Rediscovered Recordings:

    https://www.amazon.com/Rediscovered-Victor-Recordings-Jos%C3%A9-Iturbi/dp/B0BLSTJY9D

    I have it but haven't listened to it yet. I haven't figured
    out from the included book what is missing. The first question
    of a Complete Set is "what is missing?"

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  • From Dan Koren@21:1/5 to Pluted Pup on Thu Mar 16 16:34:08 2023
    On Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 3:39:27 PM UTC-7, Pluted Pup wrote:
    Apr introduced Jose Iturbi in a big way to the CD format
    with a 3 disc set:

    https://www.amazon.com/Victor-HMV-Solo-Recordings/dp/B01G3MV28W/

    Now Sony has expanded his CD discography with 16 CDs, called
    From Hollywood to the World - The Rediscovered Recordings:

    https://www.amazon.com/Rediscovered-Victor-Recordings-Jos%C3%A9-Iturbi/dp/B0BLSTJY9D

    I have it but haven't listened to it yet. I haven't figured
    out from the included book what is missing. The first
    question of a Complete Set is "what is missing?"

    None of the "Complete Recordings of xxxxxx" boxes
    released by major labels are really completely complete
    complete sets. Most commonly "missing" are radio or
    stage performances that happened to be recorded by
    opera houses, radio stations, or by the someone in
    the audience that often fall outside contractual
    rights of recording companies which are usually
    limited to studio recordings.

    dk

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  • From Mark Obert-Thorn@21:1/5 to Dan Koren on Sat Mar 18 09:18:26 2023
    On Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 7:34:11 PM UTC-4, Dan Koren wrote:
    None of the "Complete Recordings of xxxxxx" boxes
    released by major labels are really completely complete
    complete sets. Most commonly "missing" are radio or
    stage performances that happened to be recorded by
    opera houses, radio stations, or by the someone in
    the audience that often fall outside contractual
    rights of recording companies which are usually
    limited to studio recordings.

    I got the set a couple days ago, but haven't had time to listen to much of it yet. I did look through the track listings, though, and it looks like if the goal was to include all of Iturbi's RCA Victor recordings, it's more than complete, in that it
    includes a couple dozen previously-unissued titles plus V-Discs of items that didn't appear on RCA. It also includes three CDs of his sister (and duo-piano partner) Amparo Iturbi's complete issued RCA recordings. It doesn't include his later EMI
    recordings from after he left RCA in the mid-Fifties, but that's a job for Warner.

    Mark O-T

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  • From drh8h@21:1/5 to Mark Obert-Thorn on Sat Mar 18 16:25:58 2023
    On Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 12:18:28 PM UTC-4, Mark Obert-Thorn wrote:
    On Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 7:34:11 PM UTC-4, Dan Koren wrote:
    None of the "Complete Recordings of xxxxxx" boxes
    released by major labels are really completely complete
    complete sets. Most commonly "missing" are radio or
    stage performances that happened to be recorded by
    opera houses, radio stations, or by the someone in
    the audience that often fall outside contractual
    rights of recording companies which are usually
    limited to studio recordings.
    I got the set a couple days ago, but haven't had time to listen to much of it yet. I did look through the track listings, though, and it looks like if the goal was to include all of Iturbi's RCA Victor recordings, it's more than complete, in that it
    includes a couple dozen previously-unissued titles plus V-Discs of items that didn't appear on RCA. It also includes three CDs of his sister (and duo-piano partner) Amparo Iturbi's complete issued RCA recordings. It doesn't include his later EMI
    recordings from after he left RCA in the mid-Fifties, but that's a job for Warner.

    Mark O-T


    For those interested, hopefully Warner will follow up, esp. if the Sony set sells well. Most interesting for Iturbi fans among the Warners are the self-conducted Mozart 22 and Tchaikovsky 1 concertos. I have less-than pristine Angel copies of these, and
    frankly, they are not impressive. I believe at least one disc of Chopin was recorded in stereo.

    Dennis H

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  • From Dan Koren@21:1/5 to Pluted Pup on Sun Mar 19 02:59:01 2023
    On Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 3:39:27 PM UTC-7, Pluted Pup wrote:

    Apr introduced Jose Iturbi in a big way to the CD format
    with a 3 disc set:

    https://www.amazon.com/Victor-HMV-Solo-Recordings/dp/B01G3MV28W/

    Now Sony has expanded his CD discography with 16 CDs, called
    From Hollywood to the World - The Rediscovered Recordings:

    https://www.amazon.com/Rediscovered-Victor-Recordings-Jos%C3%A9-Iturbi/dp/B0BLSTJY9D

    I would appreciate if you could share what do you like about Iturbi,
    in particular which works and performances do you think stand out.

    TIA

    dk

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