RCA living stereo releases.....

you never stated what format you were looking at? I would say if your interested in the RCA label, I would look at buying the sacds as a package and start there. Im sure that Coscos sells did at a very fare price of $8.00 a pop.

SACD RCA Living Stereo:

RCASAM61387 Saint Saens / Symphony No. 3
RCASA61388 Ravel / Daphnis Et Chloe
RCASA61389 Strauss / Also Sprach Zarathustra
RCASAM61390 Bartok / Concerto For Orchestra
RCASAM61391 Beethoven & Mendelssohn / Concertos
RCASAM61392 Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov / Piano Concertos
RCASAM61394 Mussorgsky / Pictures At An Exhibition
RCASAM61395 Verdi & Puccini / Arias
RCASAM61396 Chopin / Ballades
RCASA61397 Tchaikovsky / Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"
Set 2
RCASAM61393 Gershwin / Rhapsody In Blue
RCASA66419 Offenbach / Gaite Parisienne
RCASAM66371 Brass & Percussion
RCASAM66372 Heifetz / Violin Concertos
RCASAM66373 Berlioz / Requiem
RCASAM66374 Ravel / Bolero
RCASAM66375 Dvorak & Walton / Cello Concertos
RCASAM66376 Dvorak / New World Symphony
RCASAM66377 Rimsky-Korsakov / Scheherazade
RCASA66378 Brahms / Piano Concerto No. 1

There are a few that I like from this list.

I also like some of the Bruno Walter ~ Sony/CBS red book remasters.

Almost all are available used on Amazon. elusivedisc com has the entire 21 SACD set new for $220

Also check out: Jon Valin's LIVING STEREO BIBLE; about the original vinyl pressing's.

SACD is fine if you have an SACD player that can extract the magic, and not just play SACD's. The vinyl editions are probably a bit better if you have the vinyl playback abilities that will do that justice.

..just a response to the Heifitz Mendelsohn violin concerto... I know it may be heresy, but to these ears, Joshua Bell's interpretation is not only better, but a revelation. It is also recorded on SACD and on my system, the sound is better than the Heifitz on LP.

It's not heresy. To my ears (not a violinist, but a performing and teaching musician) I have been disappointed with a number of his recordings, most recently his recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto that I discovered in my vinyl collection. This is one of the simplest, yet most musical works in the repertoire and I think his recording with Munch/Boston seems to lack ... a lot. (On the other hand, Ostraikh/USSR is great. Not flawless, but worth every second.)

Don't mean to derail the thread ... back to RCA!