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Re: [ARSCLIST] regurgitators
On 17/10/07, Tom Fine wrote:
> Hi Jeff:
>
> If it's on CD and it's Classical, Arkiv probably has a listing.
>
> For Charles Groves:
> http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?&name_id=56138&name_role=3
>
> no dice on the Beethoven symphony.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Willens" <jwillens@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] regurgitators
>
>
> I've done a search in the list archive for this, but I can't find any
> mention of it, so pardon the possible repetition.
>
> I've been looking for years for any CD issue of "The Great Composers"
> series, some of which were regurgitated on RCA/Funk and Wagnalls (in
> fake stereo! yeechh) as a supermarket series. The loss leader, Volume
> 1, was Beethoven Sym. # 6 by Sir Charles Groves & Royal Philharmonic.
> It's a performance I've listened to since I was a kid, and have always
> wanted a clean copy of it. In mono.
>
> I believe the series was licensed from a company called Fabbri. There
> is a copy on Ebay:
My recollection is that Fabbri was a publishing company, rather
than a recording company. I guess they licensed the recordings from
somebody else, although I suppose they could have commissioned them
specially.
This seems to be them:
http://www.gefabbri.co.uk/index.php
Regards
--
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx