Bargains

[Mandryka]

I've been very impressed with Sainsburys recently: my Klemperer/Bruckner box took only two days to arrive, despite the Christmas postage. Also, they're not morally tainted, as amazon are, and they're British, too! :)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... aw, you're preventing us from what we really want - Cat Stevens, Kiss, Cher, Barry White....

Surely there should be an "Icon Tina Turner"?

[amateur51]

... aw, you're preventing us from what we really want - Cat Stevens, Kiss, Cher, Barry White....

Mme Vints asked me to steer you clear of those albums vints, after the Clive Dunn boxed set debacle

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Icon". "Ike an'" ...


Oh, thank you; is that my coat? Very kind.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Before I head out into the tumbleweed, Forumistas might be interested in this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ralph-Vaughan-Williams-Symphonies-1-9/dp/B001HXS6CS/ref=pd_ys_iyr_img

... Boult's first cycle of the RVW Symphonies from the 1950s, complete (including the Ninth), for less than a fiver! They are trying to get us to overlook their Tax dodges, aren't they!

[amateur51]

Before I head out into the tumbleweed, Forumistas might be interested in this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ralph-Vaughan-Williams-Symphonies-1-9/dp/B001HXS6CS/ref=pd_ys_iyr_img

... Boult's first cycle of the RVW Symphonies from the 1950s, complete (including the Ninth), for less than a fiver! They are trying to get us to overlook their Tax dodges, aren't they!

Got me all excited there, ferney

It's a flickin' Hempeethree innit

You young people and your digital downloads

[PJPJ]

It's a flickin' Hempeethree innit

I have not had good experiences with some of the reissues from LP - some have been no more than needle-drops onto LPs in less than serviceable condition and were a complete waste of money. Others from, for example, Pristine and Dutton, have been pretty good all round, as have been the few 1 euro ones from classical music mobile.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Got me all excited there, ferney

It's a flickin' Hempeethree innit

You young people and your digital downloads

Hoopsadaisy! Yep; forgot to mention that bit!

[vinteuil]

Mme Vints asked me to steer you clear of those albums vints, after the Clive Dunn boxed set debacle

... I had clearly hinted I wanted a nice edition of Odhecaton B ; she had equally clearly hinted she wanted a decent supply of Jo Malone - how it came to pass that we both gave each other copies of Clive Dunn's "Grandad" I shall never understand...

[JFLL]

I've been very impressed with Sainsburys recently. :)

Me, too, but one annoying thing is that if you download an MP3 album (sorry, audiophiles, but at least Sainsbury's MP3s are 320 kbps), the files all for some reason have a .tmp extension added after .mp3, and as far as I know you have to manually change all these and delete the .tmp extension. Frustrating. Anyone know the reason, or a workaround?

(My reputation will no doubt plummet still further when I reveal that the MP3 I downloaded was the Sargent recording of Messiah highlights with the Huddersfield Choral Soc. I suddenly came over all nostalgic for my 1950s childhood when Messiah, usually with Sargent if I remember rightly, was broadcast without fail every year before Christmas.)

[Parry1912]

Hoopsadaisy! Yep; forgot to mention that bit!

Just as well you already had your coat on!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just as well you already had your coat on!

[Andrew Preview]

A makeshift Karajan Brahms cycle (1-3 from his 1980s set, No. 4 from the late 1970s) for just £5.77 from Amazon is too tempting to resist. I don't know Karajan's digital Brahms symphony recordings, but I gather that 1 and 2 from that set are very good while the third is disappointing. At that price, I'll be buying it anyway, but I'd be interested to hear what others think of these readings.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A makeshift Karajan Brahms cycle (1-3 from his 1980s set, No. 4 from the late 1970s) for just £5.77 from Amazon is too tempting to resist. I don't know Karajan's digital Brahms symphony recordings, but I gather that 1 and 2 from that set are very good while the third is disappointing. At that price, I'll be buying it anyway, but I'd be interested to hear what others think of these readings.

IMO, Karajan's finest Brahms set is the one from the '60s; the '89s cycle is very good (the sound on the original issues is a bit odd - bright and muffled at the same time?!) and I particularly treasure the First as I bought it at the RFH at Herbie's last London concert. The '70s set has the best sound of the three (based on the original issues - I haven't heard any more recent remasterings) but the least successful overall performances - good, but there are better versions by Karajan, Boult, Klemperer, Jochum, Loughran and even ('tho' judging by people's responses when I've said this before, I'm alone in this) Böhm for similar forces in a similar price-range. At £5.77, this "pseudo-set" is still a bargain and, unless they've really messed up the sound, I don't think you'll be at all disappointed.

[Thropplenoggin]

Today's free download from Linn Records is JS Bach: Concerto VI in F Major, BWV 1057. Annoyingly, it's only the third movement: "Allegro assai". I hate movements like this in isolation. Surely making the whole concerto available would be more in the Christmas spirit

http://christmas.linn.co.uk/