Re: [ARSCLIST] regurgitators

[Jeff Willens <jwillens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Tom,

That's rather depressing -- that a recording that had so much widespread exposure from a 99-cent LP back in the day is completely missing on CD, not to mention the other 60-odd performances in the same series. 

This was the Ebay link I wanted to send
http://cgi.ebay.com/Funk-Wagnalls-Library-of-Great-Music-Beethoven-Vol-1_W0QQitemZ170050531696QQihZ007QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

And an earlier version with a different cover:
http://cgi.ebay.com/BEETHOVEN-FUNK-WAGNALLS-FAMILY-LIBRARY-OF-GREAT-MUSIC_W0QQitemZ130163615756QQihZ003QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting






-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Fine [mailto:tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: regurgitators


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: