Bargains

[MickyD]

This 23 CD set of Joan Sutherland's studio recordings comes out this week - just over £2 per disc from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Joan-Sutherland-Studio-Recitals/dp/B005DWWVS4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1320081494&sr=1-1

[Chris Newman]

It seems the EMI Celibidache Bruckner we were discussing a while back has run into problems. Apparently a number of buyers report duplications/omissions. Amazon has withdrawn the box until further notice. You have been warned.

Apologies for tardy reply.

There are some mis-labellings with the set. Nothing that a felt tip pen will not solve. In my set everything is there but the contents of Disc 3 and 4 are swapped so that Symphony No 5 begins on Disc 4 and finishes on Disc 3. Disc 8, the first two movements of Symphony 8 are correct as with the booklet but the screen tells you otherwise: ignore the screen. Disc 10 tries to tell you on the screen that it is the Lowe:Carragan version of the 9th Symphony which is cobblers. I have the same recording on DVD and it is Novak. Celi would never have done the Carragan which includes the fourth movement.

As far as I have got the set is tremendous. I am hanging on to mine and relabelling discs 3 and 4.

[amateur51]

Looks like a bargain to me ...

http://www.sendit.com/cd/north/dowland-complete-lute-music-4cd/10565381.html

[Curalach]

Looks like a bargain to me ...

http://www.sendit.com/cd/north/dowla.../10565381.html

I will pass on the Dowland but they do have an extraordinary number of discs at £1.99 or less, including many Naxos issues.
Well worth a trawl through to pick up discs that have been missed over recent years.

[Bryn]

Did I but already have that Dowland set ...

[Dave2002]

Looks like a bargain to me ...

http://www.sendit.com/cd/north/dowla.../10565381.html

Noted, but how does anyone (of us) ever find anything worthwhile on that site? Browsing doesn't work too well, so was it just luck, or have you got some secret strategy for navigating the site?

[Mandryka]

Noted, but how does anyone (of us) ever find anything worthwhile on that site? Browsing doesn't work too well, so was it just luck, or have you got some secret strategy for navigating the site?

I was going to ask the same question.

[gurnemanz]

Lieder fans might be interested in this Siegfried Lorenz Schubert box, currently being offered at reduced price from Amazon.de. A great set from an underrated artist.

http://www.amazon.de/Lieder-Siegfried-Lorenz/dp/B000SNUKCW/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1

[Dave2002]

Lieder fans might be interested in this Siegfried Lorenz Schubert box, currently being offered at reduced price from Amazon.de. A great set from an underrated artist.
http://www.amazon.de/Lieder-Siegfrie...f=pd_rhf_p_t_1

What's on the 7 CDs?

Sampling some Schubert on Spotify suggests a singer with limited expressive capabilities - nice tone, sings in tune, but where's the feeling? Have I got this wrong? Maybe he's not really underrated at all.

[robk]

Klemperer set

Haven't seen any replies to this one. I am tempted, but the recordings are from the mid fifties. Does anyone have knowledge of them?

Anyone know anything about this Klemperer box - at just over £10 for 10 discs inc complete Beethoven Syms, Brahms 1/2/3 and Bruckner 4/7/8 maybe worth a try.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

[gurnemanz]

What's on the 7 CDs?

Sampling some Schubert on Spotify suggests a singer with limited expressive capabilities - nice tone, sings in tune, but where's the feeling? Have I got this wrong? Maybe he's not really underrated at all.

The reason for my interest is that I have a couple of LPs from East German Eterna which I haven't played for a while but remember enjoying very much when my record collection was much smaller. I wanted to upgrade to CD and checked out some favourable reviews including Musicweb:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Mar08/Schubert_Lieder_0184142bc.htm

.... and the usually infallible Alan Blyth in Gramophone:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=176190

[PJPJ]

Haven't seen any replies to this one. I am tempted, but the recordings are from the mid fifties. Does anyone have knowledge of them?

It seems to me some of these have appeared on the Medici Masters label - good 1950s German radio recordings. Whether Membran's transfers are as good, I don't know.

Is this one of them?

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Mar08/Bruckner_Klemperer_mm0212.htm

[Bryn]

It seems to me some of these have appeared on the Medici Masters label - good 1950s German radio recordings. Whether Membran's transfers are as good, I don't know.

Is this one of them?

http://www.musicweb-international.co...rer_mm0212.htm

Probably:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B005DCMVOI/ref=dp_otherviews_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&img=1

My guess is that the recording dates for the Bruckner are given in chronological order, rather then in order of symphony number. I've taken a chance at £7.90 and ordered them anyway. There is bound to be some duplication with the Andromeda Philhamonia/Vienna box re. the Beethoven Symphonies, I reckon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Symphonies-1-9-Overtures-Live-Vienna/dp/B004G6TCLC/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1320232635&sr=1-2

[robk]

Thanks for comments. At £7.99 for 10 CD's I can't resist and have ordered them. I attended some of the Klemperer Beethoven series at the RFH in 1970 when I was a student in London. He was seated at the podium and made tiny movements of the baton but still had a very significant presence that left a lasting impression on me.

[Pianorak]

Noted, but how does anyone (of us) ever find anything worthwhile on that site? Browsing doesn't work too well, so was it just luck, or have you got some secret strategy for navigating the site?

You could phone them on 01305 848725 and ask them to send you their Autumn catalogue which has 96 pages of bargains galore.