From Hyperion's website [Cecil Coles: Behind the Lines]: ''Please note that physical copies of this album purchased from our website come as CD-R copies rather than commercially pressed CDs. Booklets and other packaging are as normal.''
There can be no reason for them to issue 'copies', as opposed to re-pressing the original, other than to save money, so I do wonder if the consumer couldn't be let in on the saving, albeit I accept they are a business and need to make money themselves in the first instance.
Bearing in mind, as I mentioned earlier, Hyperion being taken over, and their retail prices increasing, the CD-R thing strikes me as a sign of the times, which is sad when it seems to me Hyperion have built up a loyal fan base over the years.
I won't be writing to Hyperion, for any number of reasons - these were just idle thoughts that I thought might be of some interest to the good people on here.
I might come back to the subject in 20 years, when Hyperion are reduced to six releases a year, mainly of Rachmaninov played by a short-skirted glamour-puss, and Sibelius Symphony Cycles conducted by someone you've never heard of, but who is hagiographically photographed as if he has simultaneously found a cure for cancer and solved climate-change.
(P.S. I got a copy of the Coles on ebay today, for Ł4.29.)
Hmmm...
Mr Cronin's statements: "factory-pressed" CD's & "if CD-Rs are no different to CDs, why differentiate...
just sell them as CDs?"
The above comments lead me to ask if there is such a thing as a "factory-pressed CD"? Maybe all retail CD's
are in fact CD-R's anyway?
Still think Mr Cronin ought to contact Hyperion and get an official response/explanation.
In the meantime, I can't help but be reminded of Klemperer's outburst when told of the convenience of using
tape edits above the expense of doing yet another take... "ein Schwindel!!"
regards
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