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Originally posted by mathias broucek View PostQobuz has the Decca baroque box (50 CDs split between two 25 CD sets) for 2 x £11 or so
Listen to unlimited or download Baroque Era Vol.1 by Various Artists in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz. Subscription from £10.83/month.
Listen to Various Artists in unlimited on Qobuz and buy the albums in Hi-Res 24-Bit for an unequalled sound quality. Subscription from £10.83/month
Search for "Baroque Era"Steve
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Don Petter
Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostI am not quite sure how today's keyboard players schedule Scarlatti's sonatas for public performance - if indeed they ever do. Only a few players seems to play them. I think some choose 3 or 4 in a sequence, perhaps with a key relation, and maybe starting with a fairly strong, moderate speed opening sonata, then having a slower one to form a kind of "slow movement" (in a more conventional 18th/19th Century sense of sonata) then choose one or two other sonatas, perhaps a bit quicker to function as "scherzo" and "finale". Otherwise simply listening to a whole bundle of Scarlatti sonatas seems to be a slightly odd experience - though not necessarily unpleasant.
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Originally posted by Don Petter View PostDo they not still usually perform them in their Kirkpatrick pairs?
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I was astonished to discover that the Pricenoia site for comparing prices across all Amazon stores is shutting down - killed by Amazon. Pricenoia has put out a statement.
Amazon really knows how to irritate its customers - in my case to the point of using it much less. Every cloud has a silver lining though, as I can now make serious inroads into unplayed purchases without simultaneously adding to the pile. Well, not very much.
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I use the Firefox add-on ' Pricenoia - Compare Amazon Prices 0.83 ' which automatically loads a graphical price comparison when you bring up a specific item ( where comparative prices on other Amazon sites are available ) on the Am UK site. This still seems to be working ok, but in view of the above will presumably be canned in due course, which would be a pity as it is very usefull.
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Originally posted by hafod View PostVolume 2 of Sony's Bernstein Edition - Concertos and Orchestral works (ASIN: B00LL4U1TE), has just dropped in price to £60.81 for 80 discs on AmUK. Release date is October 27. Full contents here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Bernste...sin=B00LL4U1TE
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostIt looks as if this is from the complete Ring Cycle - one of the very best on record, but you can get the whole cycle for about thirty quid:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ring-Nibelun...gner+ring+bohmMy life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostI thought, I sought, I bought.
It looks as if this is from the complete Ring Cycle - one of the very best on record, but you can get the whole cycle for about thirty quid:
... and, for a real bargain, it's also included in this set of all the major Wagner operas:
... one of those boxes that works out at just over £1 per disc. Makes the tenner for four CDs seem extortionate!
That's about a fiver for the extra six operas!
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Originally posted by verismissimo View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Pianorak View PostJust listened to Act 1 of Walkuere. Boehm and orchestra brilliant -and the remastering couldn't be better.Last edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 09-09-14, 08:25.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostWhen I think of all the money I spent on the original CD issues of the Böhm Ring in 1986.....:[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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