In any event, a friend emailed me this morning with a pointer to the newish Lamenti, a recording of a number of 17th c. laments, conducted by Emmanuelle Haim. EMI has track listings with, tantalizingly, little icons indicating that you can listen to the tracks.
Well, no. You have to join some kind of Listening Club to hear the tracks.
I'd settle for short samples. But I'm not joining EMI's Listening Club. Way to get my business, EMI! Welcome to the 21st century, where putting obstacles in people's way doesn't make you friends any more than DRM on CDs does.
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What's even worse about that Tristan is that EMI's idea of fixing the problem was to put a sticker on the package to let people know they were getting a Beecham-Reiner hybrid. Surely they could have issued an all-TB version, as Discocorp had already done on LP.
Oh, yeah, I meant to include that. Supposedly the later sets, which don't have the warning label, are all Beecham.
Lisa, I joined that Listening Club some while back. Never bothered to return - so many other places offer hassle-free listening samples.
FK
Haha, yeah, exactly. This afternoon, I've heard Konya, Urlus, Melchior, and Bjoerling singing "In fernem Land," all on YouTube. What could be better?
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