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Re: [ARSCLIST] Wonderful Mercury Reissues



Some Arkiv reissues are now being produced with booklets. I just purchased my first Arkiv edition - the RCA transfer of the 1947 recording of "Four Saints in Three Acts". This CD was never available in Europe, so far as I know, and has become quite difficult to find second hand.
The transfer is excellent and the 32 page booklet with Gertrude Stein's libretto is included.


There was no problem ordering from the UK. Some time back when I tried ordering from Arkiv they would not sent stuff abroad.

SA TTTTTTT

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Wonderful Mercury Reissues



The ArkivCD's should be CDR "clones" of now-out-of-catalog CD's. I tried a couple and they sound fine to my ears, keeping in mind that CDR media can be more fragile than manufactured CD's. Too bad they don't reproduce the booklets, which were sweated over profusely. Since Universal chose to take so much of the catalog out of print, this is the only way to hear a lot of this material if you missed the original CD's. Arkiv does a nice job keeping the brand alive. By the way, they have also reissued a bunch of other Universal material, particularly Decca and DGG. And they have a bunch of EMI and Sony/BMG reissues out there also. I think the ArkivCD program is now well north of 2000 titles.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- From: "Roderic G Stephens" <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Wonderful Mercury Reissues



Hi All,

I've been very pleased with my Arkiv CD purchases in
the past, but I thought you all should know about the
Mercuries that are being reissued by the label, and
I'd be interested in any comments regarding them by
Tom Fine.

This is from an email I just received from them:

"It's been an audiophile extravaganza this month at
ArkivMusic, with our sales on the fabulous BIS label
from Sweden (lots of titles back in stock!) and the
RCA Classic Film Scores series (my favorites this week
are the film scores for Errol Flynn and the Prince
Valiant Suite from Franz Waxman).
We round out the month with one of the most
fascinating audiophile labels of all, Mercury Living
Presence. Mercury was a special label in many ways, an
American company, from the heyday of classical
recording in the U.S., that reproduced some of the
most sonically realistic sounds at the dawn of the
stereo era. Precious few stereo LPs were pressed when
these recordings were issued, and they became some of
the rarest and most collectible classical discs ever.
ArkivMusic has now reissued over 60 releases from the
Mercury catalog, all of which are on sale for a
limited time."

Rod Stephens



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