What download have you bought?

[Beef Oven!]

I've almost 100% quit CDs and my music is now virtually all download. I've been a bit indulgent over the last six months and have purchased over 100 albums in that time, compared to about 8 CDs. And I've slowed down music buying in general, there's only so much that can be listened to.

I only purchase CDs when they are substantially cheaper (circa half price minimum) than the download.

All my CDs are now stored in my loft and I have just discovered that my entire Gunter Wand collection has been wiped from my hard-drive. I hope I can remember where amongst the 6k or so CDs up there I put them!

Following the discussion on another thread, I couldn't resist the Quatuor Schoenberg/Berg/Webern complete works for string quartet. Quite a bargain at £15.99 for a FLAC 16 bit CD quality download, equivalent to 5 discs.

My Lasalle collection has been a stalwart companion for around three decades and it will not be put out to pasture! I love the Lasalles.

[Dave2002]

I only purchase CDs when they are substantially cheaper (circa half price minimum) than the download.

I'm cheaper than that - I buy CDs when they are typically under £1 each - usually in box sets, or around that from charity shops. However recently I broke form and paid around £10 for a Hyperion Helios CD of Dohnanyi's piano quintets which is not I think available to stream.

All my CDs are now stored in my loft and I have just discovered that my entire Gunter Wand collection has been wiped from my hard-drive. I hope I can remember where amongst the 6k or so CDs up there I put them!

I hope you've used some good form of storage. I've been using plastic boxes with lids recently, but another site warned about putting these in lofts - or at least not without putting silica gel into the storage boxes. I believe that the CD notes can still get damp and mouldy without this precaution, and in the summer the CDs will possibly get too hot.

Re the Wand recordings - I guess you took the CDs out of the large box which would make it more obvious.

[Beef Oven!]

I'm cheaper than that - I buy CDs when they are typically under £1 each - usually in box sets, or around that from charity shops. However recently I broke form and paid around £10 for a Hyperion Helios CD of Dohnanyi's piano quintets which is not I think available to stream.

I'll only buy CDs if the item is an absolutely essential purchase (half price), or if it's offered at a silly price (£5 and under, all in).

I hope you've used some good form of storage. I've been using plastic boxes with lids recently, but another site warned about putting these in lofts - or at least not without putting silica gel into the storage boxes. I believe that the CD notes can still get damp and mouldy without this precaution, and in the summer the CDs will possibly get too hot.

In cases and then in plastic recycling bags. No silica gel

Re the Wand recordings - I guess you took the CDs out of the large box which would make it more obvious.

I've many individual Wand CDs but yes, regarding the box sets, I took the CDs out

[cloughie]

I've almost 100% quit CDs and my music is now virtually all download. I've been a bit indulgent over the last six months and have purchased over 100 albums in that time, compared to about 8 CDs. And I've slowed down music buying in general, there's only so much that can be listened to.

I only purchase CDs when they are substantially cheaper (circa half price minimum) than the download.

All my CDs are now stored in my loft and I have just discovered that my entire Gunter Wand collection has been wiped from my hard-drive. I hope I can remember where amongst the 6k or so CDs up there I put them!

Following the discussion on another thread, I couldn't resist the Quatuor Schoenberg/Berg/Webern complete works for string quartet. Quite a bargain at £15.99 for a FLAC 16 bit CD quality download, equivalent to 5 discs.

My Lasalle collection has been a stalwart companion for around three decades and it will not be put out to pasture! I love the Lasalles.

An interesting decision to make, life would be bland without the search for that CD which I know must be there somewhere, and yet I'd probably have as much of a problem searching for a download on presumably one of a number of hard drives, which had been time-consumably downloaded and then indexed, then the computer had decided should be listed differently. No I'll stick with my CDs, and burn off on to CDR the odd download I've bargain bought, or should I say leased!
I think one of my increasing problems is disposal of duplicate CDs as a result of big box bargains. The recent Karajan purchase revealed a boxful of these! I'd never store CDs in a loft, but I have a large number of CD cases stored there as a result of space saving moves to accommodate more CDs on my shelves.

[richardfinegold]

Sales figures show that CD sales began to tank when downloads took off. Now downloading is less than half of it’s peak as streaming replaces it. It’s all digital music reproduction. Most quality DACs are agnostic about the source—CD, music streamer, or even humble PC vs usb, and now they don’t show a lot of difference between wired and wifi

[Alison]

Elgar: Violin Concerto

Rachel Barton-Pine
BBCSO
Andrew Litton

Lovely lovely performance, I was reduced to tears a couple of times. Along with the Second Symphony, this is my idea of Elgar at his best.

[mathias broucek]

Solti Ring on Qobuz in 24 bit for FOUR QUID!!!!

[Beef Oven!]

Hi-Res download from Qobuz. 24/96

[Beef Oven!]

Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works Vol.1 Chandos. Qobuz 24/96 Hi-Res download, £8.99.

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner.

Contains Symphony #3, Chain III & Concerto For Orchestra.

The recommendations on the Lutoslawski thread done me in! I guess I'll get some more in this series - they're on special at the moment.

[Beef Oven!]

[Beef Oven!]

Recently Released by BIS.

Available on special from eMusic - I paid £9.32 for Hi-Res 24/96

[Beef Oven!]

Having listened to a few sets of Mendelssohn's two Piano Trios (Trio Wanderer, Florestan Trio, Trio Carlo Van Neste) I settled on the Sitkovetsky Trio on BIS.

24/96 Hi-Res download from eClassical.

[cloughie]

Hi-Res download from Qobuz. 24/96

What do think to these solo interpretations of two of the C2Oth great orchestral works Beefy!

[Beef Oven!]

What do think to these solo interpretations of two of the C2Oth great orchestral works Beefy!

Hard to say. I find that I'm filling in the gaps all the time - no way round it, I suppose. But I will say that when I concentrate and put the orchestral sounds out of my head (such as I can), I'm left with ravishingly beautiful piano music in the case of Debussy and wonderfully rhythmic mysterious and sometimes beautiful piano music in the Stravinsky, albeit a bit clunky in places. I've only played it through about three times, so as I learn and listen more, my view may change.

[cloughie]

Hard to say. I find that I'm filling in the gaps all the time - no way round it, I suppose. But I will say that when I concentrate and put the orchestral sounds out of my head (such as I can), I'm left with ravishingly beautiful piano music in the case of Debussy and wonderfully rhythmic mysterious and sometimes beautiful piano music in the Stravinsky, albeit a bit clunky in places. I've only played it through about three times, so as I learn and listen more, my view may change.

I bought the CD - i don't know whether it's the arrangement of the Debussy but it seems larger than life than much of the composers piano music - to get this in a solo piano form is certainly an achievement as is the Stravinsky cf the two piano version.