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