Dear classical music lovers,
I am very surprised to see strange things happening. I tried to buy couple of old LPs. Some of them were hugely overpriced. And when I asked the sellers why is that they said: because is on the TAS list, or because is on the
www.high-endaudio.com list.
After, I tried to buy other LPs on EBay - the same problem - the LPs that are appearing in any of this lists are grossly overpriced.
So. I studied the lists - nothing special - more than that - I can say that the authors do not have much of idea about classical music. For instance most of the recordings from TAS lists are conducted by Andre Previn.The other famous conductors - most of them unexistent.
My wonder, and question to you: why is everybody looking to these lists, as long as, other than maybe 2% from what is there, are nothing else than maybe (I said maybe) mastepieces of RECORDING and not of the interpretation or composition by itself. From musical point of view they do not represent too much.
Is the world of music lovers starting to collect RECORDINGS and not interpratations?
I can easily come up with a list that anytime will be better from a musical perspective than the 2 above mentioned lists.
What is happening? please explain to me - maybe I am missing something... (altough I don't think so)
Happy holidays to everyone