Bargains

[hafod]

David Oistrakh: The Complete EMI Recordings: 17 discs (Warner) - £16.51 from AmUk.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001ASVXSE/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=FP2WHFW2B6W6&coliid=I1CJF7O6303UF7

Messiaen Complete Edition: 'Decca' 32 discs - €51.80 @ AmIt. (Apologies if this has been posted already).

http://www.amazon.it/dp/B001D94L1Q/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=XEAWU0LH9056&coliid=I2ZQV3B0FY4X4L

[Conchis]

David Oistrakh: The Complete EMI Recordings: 17 discs (Warner) - £16.51 from AmUk.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001ASVXSE/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=FP2WHFW2B6W6&coliid=I1CJF7O6303UF7

Messiaen Complete Edition: 'Decca' 32 discs - €51.80 @ AmIt. (Apologies if this has been posted already).
http://www.amazon.it/dp/B001D94L1Q/r...I2ZQV3B0FY4X4L

Has that Oistrakh set ever been cheaper, i wonder?

[johnb]

The details of the Oistrakh set can be found here: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/EMI/2147122

Both MDT and Presto Classics have the set at a smidgeon over £20.

It looks like an interesting box but recently I have bought two boxes mainly because they were bargains only to realise that I will probably never listen to most of the discs in them.

Meantime I've been eyeing the DG Pires box but haven't bought it because it isn't bargain basement. This strikes me as silly. So I've made a resolution to only buy sets that I really desire and recordings that I know that I will eventually listen to.

[Pianorak]

Muchas gracias! Dedos cruzados.

Well, seems the Real Chopin will materialize - although a bit dubious about tomorrow. But what's the hurry?
La fecha estimada de entrega es:
sábado, 08 de noviembre de 2014

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... I've made a resolution to only buy sets that I really desire and recordings that I know that I will eventually listen to.

An excellent resolution, johnb, one that I, too, have made. Many, many times. The longest I've lasted is two weeks. Strong will-power? Alas, no: computer problems meaning that I can't access my various online accounts!


Complete Chopin on contemporary instruments, though ....

[amateur51]

Byron Janis: The Complete RCA Collection

I've received confirmation that my order for the above 12 CD set is due for delivery soon. It's priced at £10.19 and I ordered it in the Summer. They kept up-dating me frequently about how they were having trouble sourcing it and inviting me to cancel if I was fed up with waiting.

I'm delighted ... and amazed that Amazon blinked first

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And so it came to pass that Ami took delivery of the obscure novel The Complete RCA Collection by Ron Janis.

[Dave2002]

I've received confirmation that my order for the above 12 CD set is due for delivery soon. It's priced at £10.19 and I ordered it in the Summer. They kept up-dating me frequently about how they were having trouble sourcing it and inviting me to cancel if I was fed up with waiting.

I'm delighted ... and amazed that Amazon blinked first

Wow - you got that for 3p less than I did, but then I've had mine for a while. I hope yours does actually arrive.

Seems there's still a Puccini set which I don't expect ever to see.

[amateur51]

And so it came to pass that Ami took delivery of the obscure novel The Complete RCA Collection by Ron Janis.

Coulda bin worse ferney - by L Ron Hubbard

[hafod]

I've received confirmation that my order for the above 12 CD set is due for delivery soon. It's priced at £10.19 and I ordered it in the Summer. They kept up-dating me frequently about how they were having trouble sourcing it and inviting me to cancel if I was fed up with waiting.

I'm delighted ... and amazed that Amazon blinked first

There are some very short measure discs in that set - 23.52, 32.56, 38.44, 35.36, 43.51, 45.32, 37.32, 35.34, 41.01, 46.16 and 15.57 (admittedly a bonus disc) + a dvd at 55.47; but at 10 quid it is a bargain.

[Pulcinella]

Have ordered this, despite now having some duplicated CDs to dispose of: the complete Columbia recordings made by Pierre Boulez.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pierre-Boulez-Complete-Columbia-Collection/dp/B00JAOK44O/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1415173919&sr=1-1&keywords=boulez+complete

Particularly pleased to see that this will restore some of Heather Harper's singing (in Berg and Ravel) to the catalogue. Also this recording of the Falla harpsichord concerto got honourable mention on another thread.

Looks like a bargain to me!

Perhaps not quite complete: some Ravel that has been previously issued (Sheherezade overture and the little Fanfare) seems not to be included, so if I want to be a completist I can't get rid of the 3CD box set I already have!

[Petrushka]

Perhaps not quite complete: some Ravel that has been previously issued (Sheherezade overture and the little Fanfare) seems not to be included, so if I want to be a completist I can't get rid of the 3CD box set I already have!

I, too, was attracted to this box despite a fair number of duplications but the lack of texts kills it off as far as I'm concerned. It's no light matter when there is a good portion of vocal/choral recordings here where the texts will not be so easy to come by. A pity.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I..there is a good portion of vocal/choral recordings here where the texts will not be so easy to come by. A pity.

Pet: have you come across this wonderful site http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/ ?

While it concentrates on the solo-song repertoire (in all languages despite the ref to Lieder), you may well get lucky on a choral work too if someone else has set the same text for solo voice.

And of course you may some day really need a translation of Schubert into French or Spanish...

[Petrushka]

Pet: have you come across this wonderful site http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/ ?

While it concentrates on the solo-song repertoire (in all languages despite the ref to Lieder), you may well get lucky on a choral work too if someone else has set the same text for solo voice.

And of course you may some day really need a translation of Schubert into French or Spanish...

Not being much of a lieder buff I wasn't aware of that site. However, if you look at the contents list of the Boulez box you will see the problem. There are vocal/choral/operatic settings from Schoenberg, Webern, Ravel, Boulez himself and others of texts that are not that easily come by on other recordings on my shelves. On the whole, I think I'll keep my original CDs (complete with texts) and forgo the box, sourcing the missing items second hand. For a pound or two more a CD-Rom could have been included. Why spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar?

[Pulcinella]

I, too, was attracted to this box despite a fair number of duplications but the lack of texts kills it off as far as I'm concerned. It's no light matter when there is a good portion of vocal/choral recordings here where the texts will not be so easy to come by. A pity.

Oh dear: plans to clear the groaning shelves scuppered then. I really could not pass the CDs on but keep the booklets, so I guess in addition to retaining the Ravel box I have to keep the Ravel songs and Schoenberg Gurrelieder box too, at least for a while......

Given the work gone into reproducing the original covers, and the track and recording details in the documentation supplied, to omit the texts in either printed or CD form does seem like an opportunity lost (or simply deliberately not taken because of extra costs?).

Indeed a pity.