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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I find the RED one easily.

What I can't find is the Bach Piano Concertos that has the GOLDBERG style cover. That is what I saw, heard and liked in Tokyo.

Still confused. Maybe the red one in the US is the same recording as the one with the different cover.
T-Bone:

You are a star! Thank you for cracking the code. With hindsight, I suppose there are bigger issues in the universe to contemplate, but it really was puzzling me.

Despite my accurate memory of the Goldberg style cover, perhaps I was wrong about the price - I would have sworn it was Y 4500 -- maybe it has gone on sale.

In any case, I thought it sounded pretty good and will now consider it a worthwhile SACD in either the red cover or the other cover.

Thank you everyone.