Bargains

[hafod]

Yes indeed - Amazon often apes special offers from others but sometimes takes a few days to find them although it is far less tardy in raising its price when the competitor's offer finishes.

[Dave2002]

Thanks. At under £12 it's almost a no brainer! I wonder why the price dropped so much?

[Panjandrum]

Just picked up the Decca reissue of the classic 1968 recording of Billy Budd, including full texts; and the only available recording of the composer's recording with Fischer-Dieskau of the Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, and the Donne Holy Sonnets with Pears - for a fiver on Amazon!

[Alf-Prufrock]

Just picked up the Decca reissue of the classic 1968 recording of Billy Budd, including full texts; and the only available recording of the composer's recording with Fischer-Dieskau of the Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, and the Donne Holy Sonnets with Pears - for a fiver on Amazon!

Well, my computer can't find it. Gnashes of teeth

[Panjandrum]

Well, my computer can't find it. Gnashes of teeth

Alf, Think I might possibly have snapped up the last copy at that price

[Alf-Prufrock]

Lucky you! Cheers!

[Spatny]

Saw this on iTunes today for £4.99 - Beethoven: The Piano Concertos
Alfred Brendel, Sir Simon Rattle & Wiener Philharmoniker

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/beethoven-the-piano-concertos/id79494698

[Ferretfancy]

I popped into the Oxfam shop in Marylebone High Street today, and found a box of six LPs called Classical Piano Magic, featuring Earl Wild' in recordings issued by Reader's Digest.
These include Rachmaninov 2 & 4 and Rhapsody, Liszt 1, Chopin1, Saint-Saens 2, Franck Symphonic Variations and Mussorgsky's pictures. The whole box has obviously never been played and cost £4.99.
These discs were originally recorded by RCA, with the legendary Kenneth Wilkinson as engineer.
I've also found an excellent Louis Kentner Liszt recital, and a Romeo and Juliet selection from the Philharmonia and Kurtz, not a bad haul for £6.99 !

[mathias broucek]

The Barenboim complete Beethoven Symphonies is £4.49 on iTunes.

Thanks for the Brendel tip. Be warned that the gapless playback from the slow movement to the finale of the Emporer doesn't work (idiots!).

[Mandryka]

The Fitzwilliam Quartet's Shostakovich integrale is currently £15.95 at Zavvi and the Hut.

You can pick up Kertesz's highly regarded Dvorak Requieum for only £3.49 at Amazon and Play.

[Bryn]

The new Mandelring SACD box of the Shostakovich Quartets is currently on offer at MDT for £31.60. Good as the Fitswilliam set is, I think double the price for the Mandelring SACDs is well and truly worth the extra, but then I already have the Fitzwilliams.

[soileduk]

Bryn,
The box set is NOT in SACD but is only CD.

[Bryn]

Bryn,
The box set is NOT in SACD but is only CD.

If that is indeed the case, hmv.com are misselling the set:

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;0;-1;-1;-1&sku=125350

That is where I first noted the release, before searching around for a more competitive price.

[PJPJ]

[QUOTE=Bryn;48428]If that is indeed the case, hmv.com are misselling the set:


Definitely true - several online sellers say mistakenly that it's on SACD. Perhaps Audite changed their minds late on. Well worth having on individual SACDs if you're set up for them.

[Bryn]

A bit late for me. MDT have already dispatched them.