Bargains

[Dave2002]

Great stuff vints - the Zimmermanners are the biz I think it was you and Caliban who put me on to them originally - ta everso!

Out of curiosity went looking for the Cafe Zimmermann on Napster, and found some CPE Bach. Good - well played. How many recordings/CDs have they made? Which are the favourites?

[amateur51]

There were a few yes but not piles of them. If this set takes your fancy it's well worth a bus ride from Willesden Green, Am51!

I was in London for the Lucerne/Abbado concert so was there anyway but for anyone not in London, Hafod points the way and at a slightly cheaper price, too.

Cheers, Petrushka and hafod

[Nick Armstrong]

Great stuff vints - the Zimmermanners are the biz I think it was you and Caliban who put me on to them originally - ta everso!

You are everso welcome

[amateur51]

Out of curiosity went looking for the Cafe Zimmermann on Napster, and found some CPE Bach. Good - well played. How many recordings/CDs have they made? Which are the favourites?

This looks like a representative selection, Dave2002

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Cafe+Zimmermann

You can listen to extracts from some of them - happy listening

[Dave2002]

Looks like their 6 CD forthcoming set is a relative bargain then, though not ultra cheap.

[Bryn]

Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but a boxed set of the complete Wagner operas conducted by Barenboim is due to be released next month. Best price I can find is at Crotchet:

http://www.crotchet.co.uk/2564666834.html

The set arrived today It is not, as claimed, the complete operas. There is no Die Feen, Das Liebesverbot or Rienzi, just the well known ten.

[MickyD]

Out of curiosity went looking for the Cafe Zimmermann on Napster, and found some CPE Bach. Good - well played. How many recordings/CDs have they made? Which are the favourites?

Hi Dave, this is the link to the Alpha website, for which Café Zimmermann records...you can find all their discs here, but I would also urge you to discover the company's other recordings which are often quite splendid. A good website, too, as you can have a sample listen.

http://www.outhere-music.com/store-alpha

[Dave2002]

The set arrived today It is not, as claimed, the complete operas. There is no Die Feen, Das Liebesverbot or Rienzi, just the well known ten.

Bryn

I didn't know Messiaen wrote Rienzi. Is that an alternative version? :)

[Bryn]

Bryn

I didn't know Messiaen wrote Rienzi. Is that an alternative version? :)

Now corrected.

The correct post to which I was responding read:

Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but a boxed set of the complete Wagner operas conducted by Barenboim is due to be released next month. Best price I can find is at Crotchet:

http://www.crotchet.co.uk/2564666834.html

[barber olly]

Classic FM Magazine now they are putting complete works on their cover CDs are putting out the occasional interesting issues. This month has a double CD. LSO Horenstein Mahler 1, originally on Unicorn, currently I think unavailable. Disc 2 is Vasary with some Beethoven sonatas (8 14 23 26), originally Collins Classics.

[Curalach]

The Horenstein/LSO Mahler 1 is well worth having.

[Parry1912]

Europadisc have reductions on many Universal CDs for this weekend only:

http://www.europadisc.co.uk/offer/1034/LIMITED_OFFER_-_titles_from_Universal_Classics,1,304.htm

[remdataram]

Europadisc have reductions on many Universal CDs for this weekend only:

http://www.europadisc.co.uk/offer/10...sics,1,304.htm

Many of these are even cheaper on Amazon UK.

e.g. The Solti Wagner: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Overt...8602609&sr=1-4

[Dave2002]

I wasn't going to bite on that CFM issue, but Horenstein ..... Is it good? Probably worth the money then. I mentioned this in another thread because of Vasary. Now I'm guessing that Horenstein could swing this to a "buy". Ref msg 446.

[Curalach]

I wasn't going to bite on that CFM issue, but Horenstein ..... Is it good?

Out of over a dozen versions it is a performance that I have often returned to with pleasure over the years. I wouldn't hesitate to buy the magazine if I didn't have the recording.