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Originally posted by Bryn View PostJust bumping this highly recommendable set. None of the recordings have been previously issued on CD, so if you think some are duplicates of recordings you already have, you are wrong. In some cases, what you have here is 'live' recordings of works and forces who's studio recordings have previously appeared.Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”
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Originally posted by Parry1912 View PostI’ve taken the plunge. It had better be good
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostI should add that all the recordings in the set are 'live'. At considerably less than £2 per CD, and with such a varied selection, how wrong could you go? I have not listened to them all, as yet, but those I have listened to have not disappointed.
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Originally posted by crb11 View PostI've heard about half and would agree with this. The sound quality is pretty good too, even on the early recordings. Schumann 4 (Schoeck), Beethoven 5 (Kempe) and the Lutoslawski Livre pour orchestre are the highlights so far. The one disappointment is the Andreae Bruckner 7 which has two or three obvious edits in the middle movements (I'm assuming the source wasn't usable at points so they gave us what they could).
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostDownloaded it gratis this afternoon as only item.
Looks as though the site may have free downloads periodically - see https://www.classicselectworld.com/c...wnloads?page=3 for example.
You'll note that there is a heading for "This weeks free download" which may be something that comes round.
The Vernon Handley Planets on that page might also be worth checking - for 99 cents - though the usual comments about the quality of the mp3 downloads probably apply. That said, many of the downloads are at least serviceable.
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Thanks for that gurn, I got the freebie but also remarkably cheaply also two Bach Guild boxes - the Bigger Beethoven box which has the Ilana Vered Piano Concerti and Peter Serkin with the Diabelli variations and the KLR Trio box with Brahms and Beethoven Trios, some Ravel, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky among others.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostThanks for that gurn, I got the freebie but also remarkably cheaply also two Bach Guild boxes - the Bigger Beethoven box which has the Ilana Vered Piano Concerti and Peter Serkin with the Diabelli variations and the KLR Trio box with Brahms and Beethoven Trios, some Ravel, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky among others.
Recently came across a "ridiculous bargains" message board.
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Missed it!
I saw this a few days ago - when it was about £5 cheaper - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grieg-Compl.../dp/B005OV1NH4
I wasn't sure if it would have been worth it. I expect it might come round again, though I think there is a shortage at the supply end.
A few things held me back. One was that I wondered if I'd got a collection of Grieg's music which I've hardly listened to at all - and indeed that turns out to be the case. Rummaging around I found a 21 CD box (Brilliant) which contains a whole lot of songs and piano music I've almost certainly never heard before.
One of those CDs (piano music) is on now, though I have to say, pleasant as it is, it does rather fit into the musical wallaper category - or perhaps I'm being too unkind.
I will keep listening through this box, for a while.
The current box from Brilliant - called the Grieg Edition - is now 25 CDs - https://www.amazon.nl/Grieg-Various-.../dp/B07XFH5QGX
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