Bargains

[Stephen Smith]

I've used a program called Easy-Hide-IP.com to choose which of various countries/continents my IP address appears to be located. modest annual charge, its easy to use - there might be free ones if you are IT savvy. Germany and Spain (if I recall correctly) allows the download of the Qobuz FLACS. I paid this fee before the report that they had customer servce that actually helped. Might not be possible for them to help you, if in the US. My payment is Via Visa, UK based company and that hasn't affected the purchase. .

[DublinJimbo]

Just tried to access that and I'm thinking it isn't available in the States. Are these mp3 downloads?

Just recently, Qobuz ceased to offer MP3s. Their lowest-quality downloads are now lossless 16/44.

[Bryn]

For folk who are not alergic to Sinopoli, there's a 16 CD set of DG orchestral recordings for £29 on marketplace and his Mahler cycle for £22.

I took delivery of the Mahler box today. As mentioned elsewhere it bears the dreaded AMSI logo. Beneath that logo it states "infos innen". Oh no it's not. There is not further mention of the AMSI processing, or what it does to the 2 channel stereo imagery to be found in the meager documentation which accompanies the box.

[mathias broucek]

I took delivery of the Mahler box today. As mentioned elsewhere it bears the dreaded AMSI logo. Beneath that logo it states "infos innen". Oh no it's not. There is not further mention of the AMSI processing, or what it does to the 2 channel stereo imagery to be found in the meager documentation which accompanies the box.

The orchestral box is really rather wonderful. Some outstanding Debussy, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky in particular. And the Mendelssohn 4 and Schumann 2 are both lovely.

[Dave2002]

I mentioned Harnoncourt's Haydn Nelson Mass was in HMV recently for £5 **. When I went back to see what they had left there was a 6 CD box of Haydn masses for £12 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Haydn-Masses...1368931&sr=1-1 and also this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Haydn-Vol-5-...1368931&sr=1-6 which seems very similar (was it also £12?). The track listings of the sets are almost identical, though not quite I think, with Schubert Magnificat D486 and Intende Voci D963 on the first of these boxes. I don't think either box has more than 4 of the late masses, Time of War, Nelson, Creation and Harmony - so two are missing. This box has had mixed reviews - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007...pera.shopping4 - and some Amazon reviewers like the performances/recording while others don't.

HMV also had Dudamel's Rite of Spring and La noche de los Mayas by Revueltas with the Simon Bolivar orchestra for £3.75 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stravinsky-S...1369515&sr=1-1

[**I can't track down my earlier post - but most of the detail is here anyway.]

[hafod]

This may be worth a punt - I leave it to the knowledgeable in these matters to pronounce judgement on the merits or otherwise.

Wagner at the MET: Legendary Performances from The Metropolitan Opera: 25cds from Sony - £36.47.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-MET-Legendary-Performances-Metropolitan/dp/B00AL6SM0S/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=FP2WHFW2B6W6&coliid=I3AX2P28D0GP2F

Difficult to find a contents list but the following is culled from a computer translation of the Japanese taken from HMV Japan (yes - still in business it would seem!) so accuracy and comprehensiveness not guaranteed.

Der Fliegende Holländer (Dec. 30, 1950): Reiner; Varnay, Svanholm, Hotter, Nilsson

Tannhäuser (Jan. 9, 1954): Szell; Harshaw, Varnay, Vinay, London, Hines

Lohengrin (Jan 2, 1943): Leinsdorf; Melchior, Thorborg

Rheingold (Jan,21, 1951): Stiedry; Hotter, Hines

Die Walkure (Dec 6, 1941): Leinsdorf; Melchior, Huehn

Siegfried (Jan. 30, 1937): Bodanzky; Flagstad, Melchior, Schorr

Götterdämmerung (Jan. 11, 1936): Bodanzky; Lawrence, Melchior, Schorr, Hofmann

Tristan und Isolde (1938): Bodanzky; Flagstad, Melchior

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Jan 10, 1953): Reiner; Schoeffler, Hopf

[Bryn]

The orchestral box is really rather wonderful. Some outstanding Debussy, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky in particular. And the Mendelssohn 4 and Schumann 2 are both lovely.

Re. the Mahler box. These AMSI 'enhanced' re-mastering issued in 2010 show some pretty scrappy work. The DC offset on many of the discs is quite considerable. I've been ripping, editing CD breaks and compiling those symphonies (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9) broken over two disc and burning to a couple of audio DVD-Rs to make playback of entire symphonies easier. In doing so I have had to edit some spare ambient at those points where the CD changes occur. Viewing the waveforms as part of that process has shown up other rather amateurish audio work on the re-mastering, too.

[teamsaint]

Ok, nearly payday, and something has to give soon. Can anybody give good reports of this please?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liszt-Piano-Collection-Various-Artists/dp/B004Y7F4HY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361378173&sr=8-1

Barbirollians has already given the to this one. All in agreement?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liszt-Poems-London-Philharmonic-Orchestra/dp/B0033KR5ZC/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1361378173&sr=8-7

Cheers .

[Nick Armstrong]

Ok, nearly payday, and something has to give soon. Can anybody give good reports of this please?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liszt-Piano-Collection-Various-Artists/dp/B004Y7F4HY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361378173&sr=8-1

Barbirollians has already given the to this one. All in agreement?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liszt-Poems-London-Philharmonic-Orchestra/dp/B0033KR5ZC/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1361378173&sr=8-7

Cheers

No, I mustn't comment.

I must recuse myself....

[hafod]

Ok, nearly payday, and something has to give soon. Can anybody give good reports of this please?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liszt-Piano-Collection-Various-Artists/dp/B004Y7F4HY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361378173&sr=8-1

Cheers .

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=591291

[teamsaint]

No, I mustn't comment.

I must recuse myself....

c'mon, c'mon, out with it.......

[Sir Velo]

Ok, nearly payday, and something has to give soon. Can anybody give good reports of this please?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liszt-Piano-...1378173&sr=8-1

Not really. You're better buying these works individually. Look for Richter or Zimerman in the concertos and Totentanz; Arrau or Ovchinikov in the Etudes d'execution transcendante; Richter,Argerich or Demidenko in the sonata; Berman in the Annees de Pelerinage; Osborne in the Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses etc.

Barbirollians has already given the to this one. All in agreement?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liszt-Poems-London-Philharmonic-Orchestra/dp/B0033KR5ZC/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1361378173&sr=8-7

Cheers .

I think I already recommended this earlier in the thread.

[vinteuil]

All in agreement?.

My money's still on the Haselbock set. Cheaper on amazon, but the info on the presto site (kindly flagged up by Julien Sorel) might be helpful:

"This 5-CD set comprises a series of live recordings made by the Orchester Wiener Akademie and its conductor Martin Haselböck of orchestral music by Franz Liszt. They were released to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. It features all of the Symphonic Poems, the Dante Symphony and the beautiful Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine. These critically-acclaimed performances from 2011 and 2012 are unique in that the orchestra performs on the original instruments or copies of the original instruments that were used at concerts conducted by the composer himself.

For “The Sound of Weimar” project, Liszt expert Martin Haselböck deployed the orchestra Wiener Akademie in exactly the size adopted for the original performances given by the Weimar Hofkapelle, and for the recordings made use of instruments that had either been played in concerts conducted by Franz Liszt himself or were faithful copies of such instruments. When the early CDs of the series appeared they were immediately described in such terms as “definitive recording”, “exemplary editions”, “a resounding success” or “a tonal phenomenon”. In addition to the symphonic poems this special edition also includes the Dante symphony, a work that was also composed at Weimar, and Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine. Volumes 1 to 4 of the series won the International Franz Liszt Record Grand Prix in 2011 and 2012, and the series has received outstanding reviews in specialist magazines around the world."

[teamsaint]

Not really. You're better buying these works individually. Look for Richter or Zimerman in the concertos and Totentanz; Arrau or Ovchinikov in the Etudes d'execution transcendante; Richter,Argerich or Demidenko in the sonata; Berman in the Annees de Pelerinage; Osborne in the Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses etc.



I think I already recommended this earlier in the thread.

Yes, you recommended it on the Bal thread, where I had missed it.
Thanks for the recommendations, SV.

[soileduk]

Ok, nearly payday, and something has to give soon. Can anybody give good reports of this please?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liszt-Piano-Collection-Various-Artists/dp/B004Y7F4HY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361378173&sr=8-1

Barbirollians has already given the to this one. All in agreement?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liszt-Poems-London-Philharmonic-Orchestra/dp/B0033KR5ZC/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1361378173&sr=8-7

Cheers .

Haitink is £12.99 if you pop up the grocery shop.

Ah, £11.14 from Marvelio-uk