Re: [ARSCLIST] Copyrights, reissues, etc.

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Karl Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Don Cox wrote:
>
>
> > Naxos have a series of complete Caruso recordings on 11 CDs, transferred
> > by Ward Marston, who probably has access to the best copies around.
> >
> > They sound good to me.
>
>
> Indeed, a talent like Ward can do a great job...
>
> However, I wonder, were the Caruso recordings one of the historical issues
> that Naxos has pulled from US shelves?
>
> Karl

Absolutely not. In fact, Ward found a second version of a problematic 
disc while transferring the others so there are two copies in the set.

FYI: I had done some favors for Klaus Heymann, the owner of Naxos, so he 
approved my proposal to assemble a composite 'index' to the CDs as a 
CD-ROM. I built that disc, including Naxos's biography of the tenor and 
some other features, but notably allowing point-and-click selection of a 
64 Kbps MP3 of anything from the CD-DA recordings. That approach was 
discarded because of cost (not my fault - I never charge for what I do); 
the alternative was to be a paper index to supplement the separate 
indexes, one per (chronologic) volume.

Unfortunately, they did not recognize how expensive it would be to 
produce and package the paper version. The result is that there is no 
comprehensive index and the set is reduced to what I call a "coffee 
table" recording: essentially unusable except by an aficianado prepared 
to memorize the collection of indexes.

Mike
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