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Weird Question on Murray Pariah SACD Confusion

I am a little confused after a trip to Tower Records in Tokyo last week.

In their SACD live with headphones display, one of the SACDs playing was Murray Pariah Bach -- I thought piano concertos -- but I don't recall exactly.

I liked the sound of the disc, but decided not to purchase it as it was about $45.00 in yen, thinking it would be cheaper and easy to find in New York. However, on trips to two different stores I can't seem to spot the disc anywhere.

The weird and confusing thing is that the artwork and layout for the disc in Japan was exactly the same style as the artwork and layout and typeface for a Murray Pariah GOLDBERG SACD that I can easily find in New York.

The only thing that looks like Bach piano concertos, however, had a RED cover that did not look familiar to me.

I assumed the SACD catalogue was pretty small and distributed globally, but is it possible that only the artwork would change for a disc released in Japan? Could the red jacketed disc I find in New York be the same recording as the SACD I saw in Tokyo?

In any case, the performance sounded pretty good -- maybe some of you have the recording in which case I would also love to hear your opinion of the music and recording quality.

Thanks.
cwlondon

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bomarc
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Mastering an SACD is not cheap, and this disk is not going platinum. It is really hard to imagine anyone mastering the same recording twice for different markets. Different versions of cover art, aimed at different markets, is more plausible.

It's just barely possible that Perahia has recorded the Bach concerti twice, and different labels have put out the different versions on SACD. But given the minute demand for SACDs at the moment, I would doubt that's the case here.

It's highly likely that you're looking at two covers and one recording. Buy it and enjoy.
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