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Originally posted by Bryn View Post
OTOH for the same money - around £80, one could buy several Brilliant box sets of individual composers, and build up a collection that way.
I guess I just don't think the Emminence set is particularly good value for money - at that price, and many of us would find duplication of things we may already have in better versions anyway.
Decca Sound - http://www.deccaclassics.com/cat/sin...UCT_NR=4782826
Philips 50 box set - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-50-V.../dp/B0091HVMVO
Living Stereo box - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Stere...0684767&sr=1-1
Mercury Living Presence box - http://www.deccaclassics.com/cat/sin...UCT_NR=4783566
One could also stick with just one conductor, and get a range of works. The Karajan EMI box is a good example:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Karajan-The-.../dp/B000ZBPQEO - it was previously cheaper at Sainsbury's.
or buy a few boxes from other well known conductors, e.g Bernstein, Walter.
You need to shop around to get good prices on any of the boxes above.
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Originally posted by MickyD View PostHas anyone seen this? 50 CDs of EMI Eminence recordings, with original jacket designs. Quite a few treasures within, I think.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/EMI-Eminence...0670167&sr=1-1
These miscellaneous big boxes offer little attraction for me because of serious duplication e.g. the recent/pending VPO (1), Ashkenazy (2), JEG (3) and Vivarte (4a) cheapest; (4b) contents) boxes. Unfortunately, even the pending Boult/Vaughan Williams box (5) falls at this hurdle. However, the Klemperer Strauss/Wagner (6) does not although the Klemperer Mozart Operas (7) does. There is also a Mercury Living Presence volume 2 (8) due but I have yet to see the contents list and similarly Wilhelm Furtwängler: The Vienna Concerts 1944-54 (9).
(1) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wiener-Philh...=ILS9DMG2OS4ZJ
(2) http://www.mdt.co.uk/ashkenazy-vladi...cca-50cds.html
(3) http://www.mdt.co.uk/gardiner-john-e...hon-30cds.html
(4a) https://www.sainsburysentertainment....duct=E11196552
(4b) http://www.hanbooks.com/vico6boxse.html
(5) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Conducts-Vau...I3GMMDJQB613FP
(6) (7) http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/fut...ll&label=&cat=
(8) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mercury-Livi...=IRRW6Y8W3EHFS
(9) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wilhelm-Furt...I1H0JF2XS1UEFP
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Originally posted by hafod View PostFar too much duplication for me. The cheapest I have seen it is £70 delivered from Amde.
These miscellaneous big boxes offer little attraction for me because of serious duplication e.g. the recent/pending VPO (1), Ashkenazy (2), JEG (3) and Vivarte (4a) cheapest; (4b) contents) boxes. Unfortunately, even the pending Boult/Vaughan Williams box (5) falls at this hurdle. However, the Klemperer Strauss/Wagner (6) does not although the Klemperer Mozart Operas (7) does. There is also a Mercury Living Presence volume 2 (8) due but I have yet to see the contents list and similarly Wilhelm Furtwängler: The Vienna Concerts 1944-54 (9).
(1) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wiener-Philh...=ILS9DMG2OS4ZJ
(2) http://www.mdt.co.uk/ashkenazy-vladi...cca-50cds.html
(3) http://www.mdt.co.uk/gardiner-john-e...hon-30cds.html
(4a) https://www.sainsburysentertainment....duct=E11196552
(4b) http://www.hanbooks.com/vico6boxse.html
(5) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Conducts-Vau...I3GMMDJQB613FP
(6) (7) http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/fut...ll&label=&cat=
(8) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mercury-Livi...=IRRW6Y8W3EHFS
(9) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wilhelm-Furt...I1H0JF2XS1UEFP
I located a site with some tentative details of the Mercury Living Presence vol 2 - translated from a Japanese site - http://translate.google.com/translat...ence-Box-Vol-2
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Originally posted by amateur51 View Post"Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and more pleasant creature does not exist." Thomas Carlyle
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Originally posted by MickyD View PostI agree - for we serious collectors, it is not really a good buy - but maybe an interesting starting point for someone new to classical music.
Serious collectors will have duplicates and/or will have strong opinions on some content (Levine Mozart?)
Newbies are possible but £50 is a lot to spend on something you're quite new too
I suspect it's people who are buying at least in part for the nice-to-own effect of having such beautifully presented boxes.
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Originally posted by mathias broucek View PostWho these boxes are for is an interesting question
Serious collectors will have duplicates and/or will have strong opinions on some content (Levine Mozart?)
Newbies are possible but £50 is a lot to spend on something you're quite new too
I suspect it's people who are buying at least in part for the nice-to-own effect of having such beautifully presented boxes.
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostI might start sounding bit boring and puritanical here and I wish the cheapo boxes had been around when I was starting my collection, but I now sometimes think that, compared to the old days (yawn), these sledge-hammer temptations make a collector's life too easy by half. Assuming you have enough loose dosh to back it up, you just click the website button and wait for the parcel to arrive. I'm a self-confessed addict and via boxes, I have in recent times been acquiring hundreds of discs at an accelerating rate, many of which I am very pleased to have but which, if I'm honest, I don't really need ....I'm wearing a hair shirt, as I write.
Re needs, some people "need" golf clubs, gyms, several holidays/year, nights at the opera, dinners out, a new car every few years etc. On this scale even a large box a month doesn't really compete.
That doesn't make buying CDs a good thing in some people's morality, but perhaps we won't go there.
Re beautiful boxes - this is only sometimes the case. Some of the boxes are pretty awful, but they do the job.
They're probably not aimed at students, nor at people new to classical music. There might not be anything equivalent to the old Reader's Digest LP sets in the current market.
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If you consider buying downloads, Qobuz are having a special on Berlin Classics and have promo prices on some performances mentioned recently on the Kurt Sanderling thread. They have Shostakovich 1, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 15 with the Berlin Symphony for EUR 14,39 and the 7 Sibelius symphonies plus for just EUR 9,59. The single CDs (download) are still around 9,59 EUR mostly (a few lower).
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Originally posted by Howdenite View PostIf you consider buying downloads, Qobuz are having a special on Berlin Classics and have promo prices on some performances mentioned recently on the Kurt Sanderling thread. They have Shostakovich 1, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 15 with the Berlin Symphony for EUR 14,39 and the 7 Sibelius symphonies plus for just EUR 9,59. The single CDs (download) are still around 9,59 EUR mostly (a few lower).
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Originally posted by richardfinegold View PostJust tried to access that and I'm thinking it isn't available in the States. Are these mp3 downloads?
They usually do FLAC downloads also. In UK, we are enabled for download on special request to their customer services (very efficient). Why not give it a go.
Cheaps.
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To be able to buy from them, I had to register, then try to buy and be refused. I then emailed (in English) and had a quick reply (in English) and have been able to buy from them ever since. It has worked for a lot of us in the UK. They do seem to have keen prices in general, and sometimes low enough I'll go for a download.
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Originally posted by Howdenite View PostTo be able to buy from them, I had to register, then try to buy and be refused. I then emailed (in English) and had a quick reply (in English) and have been able to buy from them ever since. It has worked for a lot of us in the UK. They do seem to have keen prices in general, and sometimes low enough I'll go for a download.
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