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  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
    a decent Ring Cycle ,used, under a fiver, with Librettos.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Ring-...+cycle+neuhold
    Synopses rather then libretti, surely?

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    • MickyD
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 4744

      Looks like the back cover says the complete libretti are included.

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      • teamsaint
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 25190

        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
        Synopses rather then libretti, surely?

        I have this edition



        which doesnt have libretti or synopses. I was just going by the amazon listing.
        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          One of the reviews says there is a full libretto in German, with an English synopsis.
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • teamsaint
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 25190

            anyway, its a jolly good bargain !
            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              And I have just ordered it - £4.39 for a complete Ring? I almost feel it shouldn't be allowed.
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • Bryn
                Banned
                • Mar 2007
                • 24688

                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                And I have just ordered it - £4.39 for a complete Ring? I almost feel it shouldn't be allowed.
                Several contributers here (including me) bought the set a few years ago when Superdrug were selling them off at £5.00.

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                • Conchis
                  Banned
                  • Jun 2014
                  • 2396

                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  And I have just ordered it - £4.39 for a complete Ring? I almost feel it shouldn't be allowed.
                  That's a bit how I felt when I bought for the Solti for about a tenner earlier this year.

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                  • Dave2002
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 18007

                    Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                    Several contributers here (including me) bought the set a few years ago when Superdrug were selling them off at £5.00.
                    Quite a few years ago - maybe 10 or more. I think I managed to get a few boxes at under £5 in the end in the final clearance. I had several which I gave away as presents, though I did buy one set earlier on from the St Martin's Lane MDC shop next to ENO for around £12.

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                    • Parry1912
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 963

                      The Warner/EMI box of Puccini's operas (17CD) available on Amazon for £16.48 incl. P&P. (Incidentally, why [on the box cover] is Gary Glitter singing Calaf in Turandot?)

                      Their Verdi 'Great Operas' box (35CDs) can be got for £25.42
                      Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”

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                      • Dave2002
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 18007

                        There's also a Verdi box with I think 18 CDs for £8.99 from Selections, and a rather cheap Arthur Grumiaux box which I forgot to order. I may put in another order, as I also ordered some plastic bins, and I may need some more. Looks as though the Grumiaux box contains some older recordings - not necessarily all the later Philips ones, but could still be good.

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                        • ARBurton
                          Full Member
                          • May 2011
                          • 331

                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                          And I have just ordered it - £4.39 for a complete Ring? I almost feel it shouldn't be allowed.
                          It`s certainly galling for those of us who bought the original cd issue on Bella Musica for something like 130 Euros - and that was late 1990s!

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Originally posted by ARBurton View Post
                            It`s certainly galling for those of us who bought the original cd issue on Bella Musica for something like 130 Euros - and that was late 1990s!
                            Oh, but console yourself with the memories of all the pleasure the set has given you in the last 15+ years, ARB.

                            (It arrived this morning - played Rheingold; itself worth a lot more than the pittance I paid for the set.)
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • Dave2002
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 18007

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              Oh, but console yourself with the memories of all the pleasure the set has given you in the last 15+ years, ARB.

                              (It arrived this morning - played Rheingold; itself worth a lot more than the pittance I paid for the set.)
                              Did it have a libretto?

                              I checked one of the boxes I bought years ago, and yes - it did have the libretto.

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                                Did it have a libretto?
                                I checked one of the boxes I bought years ago, and yes - it did have the libretto.
                                Complete German libretto of all four operas, and English synopsis.
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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