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  • hafod
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 740

    Originally posted by MLF View Post
    In fairness this is a very fine consolation prize! None of the operatic excesses of the Rilling and JEG versions. Ruth Holton is to my mind the perfect soprano for Bach's Sacred Cantatas.
    I was thinking more about the absolute price reduction. Factor in the relative merits of each set of performances and personal preferences, then it is a very fine consolation prize - if the price is honoured!

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    • AmpH
      Guest
      • Feb 2012
      • 1318

      Originally posted by hafod View Post
      I was thinking more about the absolute price reduction. Factor in the relative merits of each set of performances and personal preferences, then it is a very fine consolation prize - if the price is honoured!
      No problems here. My boxset arrived 2 days ago.

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      • MLF

        Hafod - If you ever find yourself attending a concert in Edinburgh do send me a pm - like many here I owe you a drink or ten for some of your stellar finds!

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        • Dave2002
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 18015

          Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
          The French certainly used to have, quite likely still have, national competition laws against selling goods at below cost. It looks like it's these laws (not EU ones NB) that they're worried about breaching. The point of them was I think to prevent big shops sending little ones out of business by predatory sub-cost pricing, simply because the big boys could stand the losses far longer than the little ones if they attempted to compete.
          Ah - like cheap milk in the UK, which gets us into supermarkets, but really squeezes producers so that they go out of business.
          Last edited by Dave2002; 22-07-14, 08:22.

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          • PJPJ
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 1461

            Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
            Ah - like cheap milk in the UK, which gets us into supermarkets, but reallys squeezes producers so that they go out of business.
            I thought milkmaids squeezed producers.

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            • mathias broucek
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 1303

              Originally posted by PJPJ View Post
              I thought milkmaids squeezed producers.

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by PJPJ View Post
                I thought milkmaids squeezed producers.
                We do need the return of the emoticon

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                • visualnickmos
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 3610

                  Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                  Because they are French. And the French don't normally have difficulty in ignoring EU regulations.
                  You've been reading the Daily Mail to excess!

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                  • hafod
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 740

                    Originally posted by MLF View Post
                    Hafod - If you ever find yourself attending a concert in Edinburgh do send me a pm - like many here I owe you a drink or ten for some of your stellar finds!
                    A kind thought; thank you - I will bear it in mind.

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                    • HighlandDougie
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 3090

                      Not, alas, a bargain which would register on the Hafodometer - but a welcome return for a very fine set - is



                      which had passed me by. I have succumbed to the other recent Karajan reissue



                      because it contains a Blu-Ray Audio version of all of the symphonies on a single disc, as well as the CDs in remastered form. There has been a similar reissue of the Ashkenazy/Previn Rachmaninov Piano Concertos, i.e. CDs + Blu-Ray.

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                      • mathias broucek
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 1303

                        MP3 of complete Beethoven Sonatas with Jando just £4.49 from Amazon

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                        • visualnickmos
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 3610

                          I've just listened to this which arrived today (£0,01!) and although I don't normally buy 'hotch potch' CDs, this one looked worth a punt. And it was. It is a delightful CD, and the Siegfried Idyll is beautifully played, and has a lovely 'feel-good' factor about it. Now - I know this isn't the Marriner recording that was highlighted on BaL but it is well worth it's bargain price

                          I am finding that the more I listen to Marriner's recordings, the more I appreciate them, and find much in them; subtlety, a depth of real feeling for the music, and always something held in reserve when the music requires it. I simply love his Mozart symphonies.

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                          • amateur51

                            Byron Janis: The Complete RCA Collection from Amazon UK Prime at £10.16 inc p&p for 12 CDs and a DVD

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22120

                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              Byron Janis: The Complete RCA Collection from Amazon UK Prime at £10.16 inc p&p for 12 CDs and a DVD
                              ams -well spotted -thanks!

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                              • hafod
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 740

                                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                                Byron Janis: The Complete RCA Collection from Amazon UK Prime at £10.16 inc p&p for 12 CDs and a DVD
                                Actually, first posted on 12 July at #4640. Admittedly, it has gone down in price by 6p since then.

                                Originally posted by hafod View Post
                                Byron Janis: The Complete RCA Collection - 12 discs. £10.22

                                Am.Uk ASIN: B00AK3X3DI

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