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I’ve ordered itOriginally posted by Dave2002 View Post
Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”Comment
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I think I own about 90 CDs worth of those already and unless the transfers are massively improved I suspect it would just be an overwhelming amount of duplication for me.Comment
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Check how many CDs' worth of recordings there are that you do not already have. Would you pay the asking price of the set, for those alone?Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostComment
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More ridiculous download bargains (thanks to the ridiculous bargains forum https://www.talkclassical.com/39417-...-cds-mp3s.html )
“Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor StravinskyComment
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Surely the answer must be "no" - otherwise there wouldn't have been much point in posting that comment. Unless perhaps Barbs is sitting on the fence - undecided - and waiting for one of us to push him over!Originally posted by Bryn View Post
I'm still trying to resist the urge to spend.Comment
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I had already downloaded the last two above:Originally posted by Edgy 2 View PostMore ridiculous download bargains (thanks to the ridiculous bargains forum https://www.talkclassical.com/39417-...-cds-mp3s.html )
https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...an-piano-music
Liszt - a very good selection with many highly recommendable recordings, mainly from new young artists.
Italian 20th Cent Piano Music - entirely new repertoire for me which I downloaded out of pure curiosity. Most appealing, such that I sought out Vol 2 which Presto don't seem to have. Amazon have it - only mp3 but good sound and well worth the £10 asking price. Not so bothered about Einaudi but otherwise very interesting contributions from Nino Rota, Busoni, Dallapiccola, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and some less well-known composers. MusicWeb reviewComment
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Yes I think it is a no - had they all been spankingly dazzlingly remastered - like the excellent job Warner did with Callas then it might well have been yes .Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostComment
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Cheers ER, I’m in for Italian Piano set at least, maybe a couple of others.Originally posted by Edgy 2 View PostMore ridiculous download bargains (thanks to the ridiculous bargains forum https://www.talkclassical.com/39417-...-cds-mp3s.html )
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Originally posted by Edgy 2 View PostMore ridiculous download bargains (thanks to the ridiculous bargains forum https://www.talkclassical.com/39417-...-cds-mp3s.html )
https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...an-piano-music
Thanks for bringing these to our attention! I've just bought the Liszt, and am about to get the Schubert...
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Re those good-value Presto downloads, I got another couple with some off-the-beaten-track repertoire:
John Cage: Piano Music - interesting 3 disc selection, including a four-hand setting of Satie's Socrate (recently heard in its original vocal version with Barbara Hannigan on CotW) and a piano and cello piece.
Russian Orthodox Choral Music - a brand new reissue including good recordings of Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and Rachmaninov Vespers and some older Chant du Monde originals, including lesser-known composers, some of whom got slated by Tchaikovsky, who wrote to friend: "Bortniansky’s technique is childish, academic, and yet he is the only religious composer who had any technique at all. All those Vedels, Degtyarevs, etc. loved music in their own way, but they were grossly illiterate and have done harm to Russia by their works that a hundred years will not undo." - take it or leave it. Not only traditional fare, also 20th cent works, including Nikolai Karetnikov's 8 Spiritual Songs to the Memory of Boris Pasternak for male chorus.Comment
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Classics Select World has Brahms this week - https://www.classicselectworld.com/
I've had this before - and paid for it - but it's easier to download it again than copy the files across to our new machine!
Sometimes there is other material worth having on that site.Comment
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They have some boxed sets to download for £1 including Wyn Morris's Beethoven (but no #10), Colarado Quartet's Beethoven and a really interesting Tchaikovsky box - complete symphonies including 7 and Manfred, mostly Russian recordings with Rozhdestvensky. Only 256kbps mp3 but a good price and fine for the carOriginally posted by Dave2002 View PostComment
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It was £5 last week but now £6 - -Amazon selling the studio Menuhin/Furtwangler /Philharmonia coupling of the Beethoven VC on Warner Original Jackets - it seems to be a newer remastering than my old EMI References CD from the late 1980s and has rather blown me away . Extraordinarily beautiful playing and conducting of the accompaniment that takes your breath away - highly recommended.Comment
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Bank holiday sale at Europadisc (lots of Harmonia Mundi, LSO Live and others)Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”Comment
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