Pierre's Tuesday Blog

This is the sixth of Pierre's Twelve Days of Blogging.

Continuing on the theme of notable finds for 2011, some more CDs, and some Internet finds to share.

Non-Classical Selections

Four Charlie Parker's "Complete" Compilations (21 cd's)
[Torrent]

I have owned for a number of years a 2 LP-set of Cjharlie Parker's studio work onthe ...

This is the fifth of Pierre's Twelve Days of Blogging.

Related thread:
http://www.talkclassical.com/16734-your-10-best-cm.html

Today and tomorrow, I will be blogging about some notable acquisitions I have made this year, which have not found their way into la Chronique du disque. I will forego the usual “grades”, and will simply say that they generally rank high on both the Sound Quality and the Overall Impression scales.

On-line purchases
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This is the fourth of Pierre's Twelve Days of Blogging

En français

The rules will be kept simple: here’s what I found, here’s where I found it, here’s a couple of sentences about it and (possibly) some opinions.

Not unlike Olympic Figure Skating, I will provide two sets of marks (letters A to D) on sound quality (SQ) and on overall impression (OI). These grades are entirely subjective, but here are some guidelines:

• About “sound quality”:

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This is the third of Pierre's Twelve Days of Blogging.

Related thread: http://www.talkclassical.com/15299-s...-ma-vlast.html
Cette réflexion en français

Back in June, I posted a TDMH post (the first one I wrote) on Glenn Gould and the Goldberg Variations. Today, my topic is another encounter between musician and masterpiece, this time involving a major orchestral work recorded by the same conductor several times.

About the Work

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This is the second of Pierre's Twelve Days of Blogging.

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Christmas Classics

En français

A few weeks ago, I posted a blog on this page of Christmas Classics that were not traditional Christmas Carols. Well, for this Christmas day, this is a no-holds barred, sing along kind of blog, with stuff that is more along the lines of the traditional ...