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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Magic Marmalade 10th Feb 2024		Classical Item Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner - Beethoven: Symphony No.9 In D Minor "Choral"	Thanks Greg. Have moved your images up, and hidden my old misty ones :) (Yeah, looks like the old beast was on the way out even then... but then, aren't we all!) I've also removed that old link, which had an article about the first 50 CDs, but if you search that term, I think there's a couple of obscure articles knocking about that give a list - that is, if the internet hasn't gotten so monetised as to make these impossible to find now - the internet sucks now! The real secret joy of looking for, and finding these back then, was that at the boot fairs and charity shops, everyone else was looking in the vinyl crates, but totally ignoring the CDs, so I had them pretty much all to myself, to find lots of treasures nobody thought to look for. But now everyone seems to be getting back into CDs too, as well as other formats, so it's not so easy pickings anymore.... ...This is why I've gone back into DVDs and books - still got free reign on those, for a nice cheap hobby, but if that (likely) changes too, I guess I'll start collecting porcelain pigs, thimbles, or some other crud nobody cares for. I might dig this out again and have another listen now :)
Magic Marmalade 25th Feb 2023		Classical Item Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay - Beethoven Tripelkonzert, Brahms Doppelkonzert	I've been curious about this (and another Violin / Cello album on Deutsche) which features both Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Janos Starker together... ...As Wolfgang Schneiderhan was apparently a member of the Nazi party during the second world war, and Starker was in a concentration camp for a while, I believe, losing family members while there... ...These facts being so... how the hell do these collaborations happen?!! (I mean, that's got to be an awkward introduction, to say the least, let alone agreeing to play together!) I feel there's got to be a story here somewhere, after all, if they could get past that, are there any differences people cannot overcome? ((Or do I have this wrong somehow?))
Magic Marmalade 31st Oct 2021		Classical Item Consortium Musicum, Wolfgang Gönnenwein - Bach: Matthäus-Passion	These are the later eighties "retro" labels design, evoking the original "red-semi" nipper logo, but with the design occupying more of the label space to the edge.
Magic Marmalade 23rd Sep 2021		Classical Item The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Iolanthe	To illustrate my point, click on the main artist at the top of this page, and see where it leads... then come back here, and click on Royal Philharmonic Orchestra name in performers box... see the difference?
Magic Marmalade 23rd Sep 2021		Classical Item The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Iolanthe	The main benefit of the performers box in Classical world, and one of the key reasons why this world needs this method, where others don't, is due to the multitude of artists that could (and usually do) go into making up the main "Artist"... (Often given in different formulations on the very same disc / sleeve!) ...Multitudes of different collaborations make it impossible to fit all of those headline or main artists into pseudonyms for each individual artist. Yehudi Menuhin, for example, has worked with everyone under the sun, and his main page could not accommodate all this (I've tried it! :) but by adding each name INDIVIDUALLY into the performers box means we don't have to, as their participation, or involvement in any given work will associate the name in that box with their discography... ...So, however the main Artist is given (At the top of the page - for the item itself), and with whatever collaborations or formulations there are there, the individual name is the prime associating factor. Important shift of Paradigm <I love using that word :) - Main item artist is effectively secondary, and unimportant, next to the INDIVIDUAL names entered in the performers box. My own opionion is, that this is so, to the extent, that the main artist for an item at the head of the page, could either be done away with altogether (not practical for item search purposes, perhaps, but irrelevant to the artist discography search)... or more realistically, made to be not a link (not blue clickable text), as it is likely to be a unique formulation, and not lead to any of the artists involved... main item artist in classical world is effectively, functionally, and practically useless, but just a design carry over from 45cat, and other 45worlds for more popular music, where it is useful (essential), relevant, and functonal. There's plenty of thinking to do yet for classical, as just illustrated, but don't worry too much about getting artist collaborations tied up here yet... just get the names INDIVIDUALLY in the performers box, then we'll have something toworl with, and give shape to :) Bang' em in, then we'll shape 'em up (When admin get around to making the necessary changes ;)