Missing persons alert

For what it's worth, I was incorrect; Brilliant is actually distributed by Koch in the US, not Qualiton. (The Friedrich Gulda Beethoven Piano Concertos with Horst Stein/Vienna turned up this afternoon.)

NL: Thanks, Allan. I need to get me among those Guldas again.

Great to hear about Barry McCann. Simon Foster, who runs Avie, is also an EMI refugee, of course.

Brilliant Classics are distributed in the US by Qualiton.

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NL adds: Simon started out as an Angel before becoming a Virgin, a process unique in the history of theology, I believe.

Good news. Chris Craker has emailed me saying he's alive and well, just bound hand, foot and round the mouth by SonyBMG lawyers at Guantanamo.

Actually that's not what he says. He can't utter a peep under the terms of his severance. I'm drawing my own analogy.

Actually there's a used book store chain (Half-Price Books) near here (Louisville, Kentucky) that often has these Brilliant Classics box sets available among their CDs. Not sure where they get them, but they retail for only about $16.99 for a 10-16 disc set.

Delighted to hear it. When I chose a Brilliant as CD of the Week, I got lots of US complaints that it was unobtainable there.

Brilliant Classics recordings are available in the US from Arkivmusic.com, at least.
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Label?&label_id=319

Although if you're referring specifically to the Messiaen set, it's true that this is not (yet?) available in the arkivmusic catalogue.