Bargains

[hafod]

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas (Paul Lewis) harmonia mundi - £24.27.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-Complete-Piano-Sonatas-Lewis/dp/B0027YUK8Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412423945&sr=8-1&keywords=paul+lewis+beethoven+sonatas

[Pianorak]

Back OT, not as spectacular in the bargain stakes as many recent suggestions, but still worth investigating: Europadisc have 30% off the whole Hyperion list until next Thursday.

Thanks for the link. Pleased to see the Faure/Kathryn Stott 4-CD set included - just ordered!

[Rolmill]

Thanks for the link. Pleased to see the Faure/Kathryn Stott 4-CD set included - just ordered!

Yes, I was very tempted by that - only deleted from my basket at the last minute when my budget-conscious head overruled my heart .

I would certainly recommend the London Haydn Quartet's double CD of Papa H's op.33 set at a whisker over £9 - bracing and thought-provoking. Marc-Andre Hamelin's three Haydn piano sonata twofers at the same price are also well worth the money.

[Pianorak]

Marc-Andre Hamelin's three Haydn piano sonata twofers at the same price are also well worth the money.

Although a Hamelin fan, I cannot warm to his (or John McCabe's) Haydn sonata recordings. Not a patch on Andras Schiff IMV.

[hafod]

Pierre Boulez: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (67 discs, ASIN B00JAOK44O), now £81.18 at AmUk.

[teamsaint]

Liszt master and Magician down to around £11

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Franz-Liszt-Master-Magician-Various/dp/B004TVVZI2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412630123&sr=8-1&keywords=liszt+magician

[Bryn]

Beethoven: Complete Quartets. Tokyo Quartet - sacd harmonia mundi. Just reduced on Amuk to £15.12. The ASIN is B00L5J4PYC

I bought these SACDs (with the exception of the disc with Op. 74 and 95) as they were released. I held back re. that one disc as it seemed overpriced compared to the others. It would still cost me over £10 to get that single disc via the amazon.co.uk marketplace, so I have ordered the box (due tomorrow). I will sell the others as and when.

[Dave2002]

Liszt master and Magician down to around £11

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Franz-Liszt-...liszt+magician

Great price for anyone who hasn't got it already.

[Pianorak]

Great price for anyone who hasn't got it already.

Feeling slightly sick, having paid £19.67 quite recently - but still pleased I got it.

[Rolmill]

Liszt master and Magician down to around £11

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Franz-Liszt-...liszt+magician

Duly ordered - thanks for the alert ts!

[Madame Suggia]

Richard Wagner: Great Recordings
Amazon
ISIN: B00A2JTEHY

Interesting set for around £16 for 40 discs, it includes the early Janowski Ring.

Very tempted

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Richard Wagner: Great Recordings
Amazon
ISIN: B00A2JTEHY
Interesting set for around £16 for 40 discs, it includes the early Janowski Ring.
Very tempted

Worth it for that Ring Cycle alone, you also get excellent performances of Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger and (especially) Parsifal - these latter three taken from off-air recordings in not the best (nor the worst) sound. No Tannhauser or Tristan - and the worst performance of Dutchman I've ever heard. Some historic recordings from Melchior and Flagstad, some more modern ones (Brunnhilde immolates no fewer than thrice in this collection!) - orchestral excerpts and arrangements from Stokowski, Szell and Maazel, and a disc of two-piano arrangements of or by Wagner.

Everything taken from the SONY/CBS, EURODISC and RCA/BMG back catalogues - which makes the omission of Tristan & Tannhauser all the more remarkable: not a single recording of either from any of these companies between the 1960s and the 1990s?!

[vinteuil]

Richard Wagner: Great Recordings
:

... it is indeed, a weird congeries of recordings - as many here and elsewhere have observed. But at this price, EVERYONE shd acquire it - the Janowski Ring, the Karajan Parsifal, the Keilberth Meistersinger, the piano transcriptions - all make it well worth having. And - I say again - at that price!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00A2JTEHY

[Conchis]

Worth it for that Ring Cycle alone, you also get excellent performances of Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger and (especially) Parsifal - these latter three taken from off-air recordings in not the best (nor the worst) sound. No Tannhauser or Tristan - and the worst performance of Dutchman I've ever heard. Some historic recordings from Melchior and Flagstad, some more modern ones (Brunnhilde immolates no fewer than thrice in this collection!) - orchestral excerpts and arrangements from Stokowski, Szell and Maazel, and a disc of two-piano arrangements of or by Wagner.

Everything taken from the SONY/CBS, EURODISC and RCA/BMG back catalogues - which makes the omission of Tristan & Tannhauser all the more remarkable: not a single recording of either from any of these companies between the 1960s and the 1990s?!

Bought this last month for just over thirteen quid, even though I already had the Janowski Ring. It's a treasure trove:the Leinsdorf Lohengrin sounds gorgeous and the Holander ain't all that bad, really.

CBS/RCA notoriously have very little Wagner (or opera) in their vaults:this is just about all ther is.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... the Leinsdorf Lohengrin sounds gorgeous

An electrifying performance

and the Holander ain't all that bad, really.

Well ... the orchestra plays in tune, the singers aren't bad, the recorded sound is excellent; but "flying" it ain't! (The Dutchman Stuck in the Doldrums, more like!)