[78-L] Jacqueline Du Pre - Peter and the Wolf

[Michael Biel]

Michael Biel wrote:
> My goodness, here's a web page

Forgot to include the URL.   http://www.buywell.com/booklets/4800475.pdf
>  that allows you to print off the CD 
> booklet with full printers allignment markings to reproduce it exactly.  
> In it I see that the liner notes writer, Raymond Tuttle, references an 
> article I wrote in the Journal of the Prokofiev Society.but doesn't 
> credit me by name.  "By at least one estimate  Sergey Prokofiev's Peter 
> and the Wolf ( a symphonic fairy tale for children) has been recorded 
> over four hundred times, with narrations by everyone from Eleanor 
> Roosevelt and Dame Edna Everage to Sir John Gielgud and David Bowie."  
> He could have at least credited me for the estimate and the listing of 
> the names he included (or sent me a copy of the CD). 
>
> Michael Biel  mbiel at kih.net
>
> Michael Biel wrote:
>   
>> Thomas Stern wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> This recording was scheduled to be 
>>> released on CD last summer in the 
>>> DG Eloquence series.
>>> The few sources which list it indicate
>>> it is not in stock.
>>> WAS it released??
>>> Thanks, Thomas.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Oh I hope so.   It is one of the very few in the English language that I 
>> don't have.  The original was in and out of print so fast I didn't know 
>> it existed until just a few years ago.  Read in her bio that she 
>> recorded it after she could no longer play. 
>>
>> This web page pictures both the CD and the LP so the CD should have been 
>> released.  I think they are feeding it and other selections which seems 
>> to be highly improper and I condemn this practice for currently 
>> available recordings, but the pictures are good..  
>> http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1643074/3100888/
>>
>>  I just got the Joanna Lumley one two days ago and the Lauritz Melchior 
>> last week.  An A condition copy of the Izhak Perlman in Hebrew is flying 
>> down to me from Canada to replace my trashed-condition copy. 
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com